Putin has renamed the FSB Academy after Dzerzhinsky
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has restored the name of Felix Dzerzhinsky—considered the ideologue of the "Red Terror"—to the Academy of the Federal Security Service.
This is reported by Russian media.
Putin’s decree states that this decision was made “in recognition of the merits of the personnel” of the FSB Academy “in the field of professional training for the benefit of the Federal Security Service and in light of their outstanding contribution to ensuring national security.”
Felix Dzerzhinsky was a revolutionary, a Bolshevik, and one of the main organizers and leaders of the Soviet repressive organs. From 1917, he headed the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (Cheka), and from 1924 until his death in 1926, its successor, the United State Political Administration (OGPU).
Dzerzhinsky is known as the architect of a system of mass terror and extrajudicial repression. Under his leadership, Soviet security forces carried out mass executions, suppressed peasant uprisings, and persecuted the clergy and political opponents of the Bolshevik Party.
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