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Theo Bách khoa Toàn thư Anh (Britannica) Felix Dzerzhinsky sinh năm 1877 tại Kaunas (Kovno, Lithuania, khi đó thuộc Đế chế Nga) trong gia đình quý tộc nghèo người Ba Lan.

Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed "Iron Felix" for leading the Soviet secret police in the decade following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, presided over thousands of arrests and executions.

A statue of Dzerzhinsky, known as Iron Felix, had previously stood in front of the former office of the KGB on Lubyanka Square — now the home of the Russian secret service, the FSB.

Under Felix Dzerzhinsky, a ruthless revolutionary, the Cheka was tasked with keeping the leadership in power at all costs. It served as judge, jury and executioner for the state, using sabotage ...

Dzerzhinsky, a Polish noble-turned-revolutionary who helped lay the foundations of the repressive system over which Josef Stalin was to preside, is reviled by dissidents but is a hero to the spies ...

Felix Dzerzhinsky in a meeting among other members of the Presidium of the Cheka, 1919. In 1918, the All-Russia Extraordinary Commission and the Soviets managed to establish a local Cheka apparatus. It included Oblast, Guberniya, Raion, Uyezd, and Volost Chekas, with Raion and Volost Extraordinary Commissioners. In addition, border security ...

Felix Dzerzhinsky. A Polish-born revolutionary who joined the Bolshevik Party after getting out of prison in 1917. Following the October Revolution, Vladimir Lenin appointed Dzerzhinsky head of the Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force and an early forerunner of the KGB. Lev Kamenev (a.k.a. Lev Rosenfeld)

Former inmates and lawyers who visited Lefortovo describe it as a Soviet time capsule, with shabby floors, thick oil paint on the walls, portraits of Felix Dzerzhinsky, who created the Soviet ...