Putin Renames FSB Academy After Red Terror Architect Felix Dzerzhinsky
The decree cites Dzerzhinsky’s contribution to state security and signals a broader rehabilitation of Soviet-era symbols, independent journalists said.
- President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Wednesday renaming the FSB Academy after Felix Dzerzhinsky, the Soviet secret police founder. The academy serves as Russia's main higher-education institution for its security service.
- Known as "Iron Felix," Dzerzhinsky established the Cheka, the precursor to the KGB, following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. He led the organization during the Russian Civil War, overseeing mass executions during the Red Terror.
- Putin, a former KGB and FSB officer, has presided over the gradual rehabilitation of Soviet-era symbols. He once called the collapse of the USSR the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century.
- The facility bore Dzerzhinsky's name from 1962 to 1993, when it was removed following the USSR's collapse. The decree recognizes the academy staff's service record, restoring the historical designation.
- Independent Russian journalists termed the move "symbolic," marking Putin's first formal state evaluation of Dzerzhinsky's legacy. Russia's Communist Party has advocated returning his monument to Lubyanka Square.
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In 1991 the Moscow statue of Felix Dzerzinskji, the founder of the Urss secret police, was demolished. But now the bloody architect of red terror returns to the pedestal
RECIT - An Ukase signed this Wednesday by the head of the Kremlin renames the FSB Academy, the Russian "intelligence services", the name of the founder, in 1917, of the dreadful secret police, the Cheka.
Russian President Vladimir Putin restored the name of Felix Dzerjinski, the controversial founder of the Soviet political police (Ceka), the Academy of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the continuation of the KGB theme.
Putin renames Russia’s spy academy after founder of Soviet secret police — Novaya Gazeta Europe
The Academy of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Moscow, which trains Russian intelligence personnel, has been renamed in honour of the first Soviet secret police chief Felix Dzerzhinsky, according to a decree issued by Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.
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