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New page: right|thumb|Felix Dzerzhinsky '''Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky''' (Polish: Feliks Dzierżyński, Russian: Феликс Эдмундович Дзер...
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'''Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky''' ([[Polish]]: Feliks Dzierżyński, [[Russian]]: Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский) was the head of the [[Soviet]] first secret service, the [[Cheka]], from 1917-1922 and of the Cheka's successors, the [[GPU]] and the [[OGPU]], from 1922-1926.
He was born on September 11 1917 in [[Poland]]. He intended to be a [[Catholic]] [[priest]], but became involved with [[socialist]] movements. He was frequently imprisoned, and in 1917 he joined the [[Bolshevik]] party.
On December 20, 1917 [[Lenin]] appointed him the head of the newly established [[Cheka]]. Dzerzhinsky went on to be the head of an organization that murdered up to 500,000 "counter-revolutionaries". After the [[Cheka]] was integrated with the [[NKVD]], Dzerzhinsky headed its successors, the GPU and then the OGPU.
He died on July 20, 1926 in [[Moscow]] of a heart attack. He was widely regarded as a sort of hero in the [[Soviet Union]], and there are numerous cities named after him in the former [[USSR]].
== Links==
[http://newsfromrussia.com/culture/2002/09/11/36374.html ''Pravda.RU'']
'''Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky''' ([[Polish]]: Feliks Dzierżyński, [[Russian]]: Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский) was the head of the [[Soviet]] first secret service, the [[Cheka]], from 1917-1922 and of the Cheka's successors, the [[GPU]] and the [[OGPU]], from 1922-1926.
He was born on September 11 1917 in [[Poland]]. He intended to be a [[Catholic]] [[priest]], but became involved with [[socialist]] movements. He was frequently imprisoned, and in 1917 he joined the [[Bolshevik]] party.
On December 20, 1917 [[Lenin]] appointed him the head of the newly established [[Cheka]]. Dzerzhinsky went on to be the head of an organization that murdered up to 500,000 "counter-revolutionaries". After the [[Cheka]] was integrated with the [[NKVD]], Dzerzhinsky headed its successors, the GPU and then the OGPU.
He died on July 20, 1926 in [[Moscow]] of a heart attack. He was widely regarded as a sort of hero in the [[Soviet Union]], and there are numerous cities named after him in the former [[USSR]].
== Links==
[http://newsfromrussia.com/culture/2002/09/11/36374.html ''Pravda.RU'']