Moscow to vote on whether to reinstate statue of brutal founder of Soviet security services
Russians step on the head of a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky after it was toppled in 1991 - AP/ , the fearsome founder of the Soviet security services, on the spot from which it was torn down during the collapse of the USSR. The monument to Dzerzhinsky, an architect of the Bolsheviks’ bloody Red Terror, dominated the square outside headquarters of the Soviet KGB, now the FSB, in central Moscow until 1991. Buoyed by hopes of a new era in Russian politics, crowds cheered as it was removed by cranes following a failed hardline coup. Since then ...
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