Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

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English: Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Polish language: Feliks Dzierżyński, Russian language: Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский, Belarusian language: Фелікс Эдмундавіч Дзяржынскі; September 11,1877 (old calender:August30) –July 20, 1926) was a Polish Communist revolutionary, famous as the founder of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka, later known by many names during the history of the Soviet Union. The agency became notorious for large-scale human rights abuses, including torture and mass summary executions, carried out during the Red Terror and the Russian Civil War.^[1]

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Dzerzhinsky, young, no date	Russian revolutionaries: Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, Члены коллегии ВЧК (слева направо), Я. X. Петере, И. С. Уншлихт, А. Я. Беленький (стоит), Ф. Э. Дзержинский, В. Р. Менжинский. 1921 г.}}	Felix Dzerzhinsky 1919	Lenin's burial. Dzierzynski at the front (for the photographers), January 1924
Dzerzhinsky as the Sword of Revolution, drawing by Nikolai Bukharin, 1925	Young communist reading the "History of the CPSU(b). 1939", Dzerzhinsky behind Stalin	Monument in Minsk	Dzerzhinsky monument Mariupol (Ukraine)
Dzerzhinsky Garden in en:Perm with a monument of Dzerzhinsky, sculpted by Anatoly Uralsky	Dzerzhinsky monument in Moscow, sculpted by Yevgeny Vuchetich	(2)	Monument in Donetsk, Crimea
(2)	Plaque in Donetsk, Crimea	Stamp, GDR