Sunday, December 20, 2020

December 20, 1920. Red Russia turns Redder.

Felix Dzerzkhinsky in Switzerland, 1918, with his wife and son.  The son was born in 1911 in prison where Sophia Dzerzkhinsky was a political prisoner.

On this day the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service was created as a special section of the Cheka.  Felix Dzerzhinkshy was at its head.

Dzerzhinkshy was a Pole of noble birth who was radicalized at some point in his early years and went on to a blood stained role in the early Soviet Union.  He died of a heart attack at age 59 in 1926.

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