Monument to "Chekist No. 1" Dzerzhinsky installed in Moscow again

A monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, head of the All-Russian Emergency Commission, abbreviated as VChK and commonly known as Cheka, was installed on the territory of the headquarters of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service in Moscow. It is a smaller copy of the monument that once stood in front of the KGB building.

Source: RIA Novosti, a Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlet; Radio Svoboda (Liberty)

Details: The monument was unveiled by Sergei Naryshkin, Chief of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. 

He stated that Dzerzhinsky "dreamed of creating a future based on the principles of goodness and justice". Russian propagandists call Dzerzhinsky "Chekist No. 1".

After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Dzerzhinsky headed the All-Russian Emergency Commission, which carried out terror against people accused of involvement in counter-revolutionary organisations during the Civil War.

The Chekists were the name given to the state security officers who replaced the All-Russian Emergency Commission. Employees of the modern Russian FSB are also often referred to as Chekists.

The monument to Dzerzhinsky was installed near the KGB building in Moscow on Lubyanka in 1958. It was dismantled in 1991 after the failure of the USSR State Committee on the State of Emergency's coup attempt.

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