Who was the first head of the Soviet secret police unit "Cheka"?
Felix Dzerzhinsky was the first head of the Soviet Union's secret police force the "Cheka". Dzerzhinsky was nicknamed the "Iron Felix" because of the brutal pogroms he initiated during the mass killings, torture, and oppression known as the "Red Terror" during the Russian Civil War in 1918. Dzerzhinsky was a close confidant to Vladimir Lenin even though Dzerzhinsky opposed Lenin on crucial issues like trade unions, the peace treaty that was forced on the Bolshevik government by the Central Powers that ended Russia's participation in WWI, and nationality policy. Dzerzhinsky died of a heart attack in 1926 after giving a two hour speech denouncing Leon Trotsky.
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Bob Gorby
My 💗 would’ve died to, if I had to denounce Trotsky. Who’d we get instead. Papa Joe Stalin, Worst monster that world history has served up yet.
Rob Farr
Another infamous person from the dark history of Soviet Russia ...
Diane Herbert Wall
KNEW the answerI thot--went with majority--not good.
Ben
Nobody cry for the bad man.
lls
Nicholas Miernicki, ...they always try the same pattern...shades of deja vous, in these times, with Putin, as well...
Nicholas Miernicki
Dzerzhinsky is rumored to be another victim of Stalin and his questionable medical advice. In fact, Stalin was one of the pallbearers at Dzerzhinsky's funeral and it was reported he was in a very jovial mood for such a somber occasion.
Mike Dela Cruz
I agreeVince Savage,