Clean hands laborer revolution

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Felix Dzerzhinsky comes from an ancient noble family of the Polish coat of arms, Sulim, known from at least 1410 onwards. He was born in the Vilna province of the Russian Empire on the territory of present-day Belarus into the family of court counselor Edmund-Rufin Dzerzhinsky, a graduate of Petersburg University who taught at the Mariinsky Women's Gymnasium (1868 – 1873) and Taganrog Classical Male Gymnasium (1873 – 1875). Anton Chekhov was among his students, as evidenced by the surviving work of Chekhov in mathematics.

Felix's mother, Elena Ignatievna Yanushevskaya, was the daughter of a professor at the Petersburg Railway Institute. The family had nine children, and when the father died of tuberculosis in 1882, Felix was 5 years old, the eldest of the sisters was 12, and the youngest was a little over a year old. However, Elena Ignatyevna created all the conditions for the development of children with the material support of her mother. Felix recalled: “Our mother is immortal in us. She gave me a soul, put love in it, expanded my heart and settled in it forever. ” It was the mother and elder sister Aldona who prepared Felix for entering the 1-th Vilna men's gymnasium in the year 1887.



At that time, all Polish and Catholic were persecuted by tsarist officials throughout Belarus and Lithuania, which caused legitimate protest in the young soul. The first years of study, according to the memoirs of Dzerzhinsky himself, he even dreamed of "the destruction of all Muscovites." The fracture occurred in 1894, when he became acquainted with the ideas of Marxism and saw in them a practical way of achieving justice on earth. Left without a mother in 1896, he finally chooses the path of a professional revolutionary.

In the beginning. 1897, as an agitator, he was sent to Kovno (Kaunas), an industrial city, where, as Dzerzhinsky wrote in his autobiography 1921, he “had to enter the thick of the factory masses and face unprecedented poverty and exploitation, especially of female labor. Then I learned in practice how to organize a strike. ” In the second floor. the same year, he was arrested and sent for three years to Vyatka province, from where he fled by boat and in 1899, he returned to Vilna, and then moved to Warsaw.

In February, 1900 was arrested again and held first in the 10th Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel, and then in the Sedletskaya Prison, from where he began. November 1901 wrote to his sister: “I wholeheartedly strive to prevent injustice, crime, drunkenness, depravity, excess, excessive luxury, brothels in which people sell their bodies or souls or both together; so that there would be no oppression, fratricidal wars, national enmity ... I would like to embrace all humanity with my love, warm it and clean up the dirt of modern life ... ”

In 1906 in Stockholm at the 4 ("Unification") congress of the RSDLP, Felix Dzerzhinsky met Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, and at the 5 congress in 1907, he was elected in absentia a member of the RSDLP Central Committee. In April, Dzerzhinsky was arrested for the fifth time in 1908 in Warsaw ...

18 February 1909 of the Year in his “Prison Diary” Dzerzhinsky wrote: “At the place of execution there are permanent gallows, not temporary gallows. The doomed ones are already taken from here with their hands tied with a belt. Up to three sentenced are hanged simultaneously. When there are more of them, the three are hanged, the rest immediately wait for their turn and look at the execution of their comrades. ” Six months later, on July 11, he made the following entry: “During the execution, a detailed protocol is kept now, as the doomed behaved, his words are recorded, groans and deathliness are noted. This is done with a "scientific" purpose. "

23 June 1911, the wife of Dzerzhinsky Sofia Sigismundovna, also a professional revolutionary, had a son, Yang, born in Warsaw's Serbia Prison. However, they only met after 8 years - at that time Dzerzhinsky was already the chairman of the Cheka. He met his family on the platform, drove home, and he immediately left for service. Dzerzhinsky’s flat consisted of one room with a table and two beds ...

Dismal prison days ended for Felix Edmundovich only 1 March 1917 year, after the February Revolution swept away autocracy. Dzerzhinsky gave more than 20 years to illegal work, of which 11 spent years in prisons, exile and in hard labor. Sergei Uralov recalls his first meeting with him like this: “The day in question was special: political prisoners who had been released from Butyrka prison were brought to the Moscow Council. Among them was Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky. His tall stature and delicate features of a painfully pale face immediately attracted the attention of all those present. Handshakes, endless cheers, strong handshakes and hugs of friends, tears of joy accompanied the arrivals as they climbed to the second floor. ”

At the VI Congress of the RSDLP (b), from 8 to 16 in August in Petrograd, Dzerzhinsky was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. He participated in the meeting of the Central Committee, which decided on an armed uprising, was introduced to the Military Revolutionary Center. During the October Revolution he seized the General Post Office and Telegraph, then he was responsible for the protection of Smolny.

December 20 At the meeting of the SNK Dzerzhinsky on the initiative of Lenin, 1917 was appointed chairman of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (All-Russia Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, Sabotage and Speculation). Started in the middle. February 1918, the German attack on Petrograd created an emergency. In this regard, 21 February 1918, the Council of People's Commissars adopted a decree "Socialist fatherland in danger!". On its basis, the VChK for the first time received the right of extrajudicial (but completely legal) reprisals against "enemy agents, speculators, thugs, hooligans, counter-revolutionary agitators, German spies." A day later, “saboteurs and other parasites” were added to them, warning that the Cheka did not see any other measures besides the merciless destruction of those “at the crime scene” (News of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, February 23, 1918).

“I see the future,” Dzerzhinsky wrote to his sister, “and I want and should myself be a participant in its creation ... Have you ever wondered what war is in its real images? You repelled from yourself the images of human bodies torn apart by shells, wounded on the battlefield, and ravens pecking out the eyes of still living people. You pushed away those terrible pictures that are daily before our eyes. You can not understand me. A soldier of the revolution, fighting for the fact that there was no injustice in the world, so that this war would not give to the wealthy winners, the whole multimillion nations. War is a terrible thing. The whole world of rich men has moved on us. The most unhappy and darkest people first came to defend their rights - and give a rebuff to the whole world. Would you like me to stay away? Aldona is mine, you will not understand me, therefore it is difficult for me to write. If you saw how I live, if you looked into my eyes - you would understand, or rather, feel that I remained the same as before. ”

Recently, many excellent historical works in which it is strictly documented that the conspiracies of counterrevolution are not at all inventions of the Cheka. It is enough to skim at least a cursory glance at the study of Eduard Makarevich, Doctor of Sociology “Conspiracy of Professors. From Lenin to Brezhnev "(M., 2017) to make sure of this.

As chairman of the Cheka, Dzerzhinsky achieved the transformation of this body from a civilian institution into a centralized military organization, which was based on the principles of unity of command and the system of combat orders. In September, the 1920 of the year, all employees of the Cheka were equated to the servicemen of the Red Army. As a result, the young republic was able to withdraw from the Civil War, retaining almost the entire territory of the Russian Empire. And in this, of course, considerable merit of the KGB. According to the latest archival data, for three years 17 thousand people were shot from four bodies of the Cheka, mostly for criminal offenses (excluding the Kronstadt insurgency). A study of the minutes of meetings of emergency commissions suggests that the use of capital punishment was the exception rather than the rule.

The First World War and the Civil War left a legacy of the young Soviet republic not only ruin and famine, but also child homelessness. About 7 million homeless children wandered around the country. 27 January 1921 at the Central Executive Committee created a commission to improve the lives of children. The chairman of the commission was Dzerzhinsky. At night, on the way from Lubyanka to his apartment in the Kremlin, he often climbed into the asphalt-smelting boilers and dragged out dirty children and teenagers. Created in a large number of children's homes, “children's homes,” children's communes, colonies, boarding schools and other measures yielded results. The number of street and street children in the country has sharply decreased. Many of them later became famous scientists, writers, engineers, heroically defended our country during the Great Patriotic War. Perhaps this is a mere coincidence, but the monument to Dzerzhinsky was erected where the buildings of not only State Security, but also the Children's World department store, rise.

By the decision of the party, Dzerzhinsky, retaining the post of chairman of the OGPU, consistently shouldered all the new and new heavy responsibilities for the resuscitation of the Russian economy. In 1921, he was appointed Commissar of Communications. Having collected the best and most experienced railway transport specialists, having established discipline and control, he managed to overcome the system of thefts and mismanagement on the country's railways and organize their normal work. And since February 2 1924, Dzerzhinsky has also become the chairman of the Supreme Economic Council, that is, the head of the entire national economy of the young state. Stalin personally recommended him for this post.

Dzerzhinsky developed a very interesting “locomotive” program, the essence of which was the immediate deployment of locomotive building in the Soviet Union. According to Felix Edmundovich, an absolutely fair and reasonable opinion, the program would give the opportunity to fully load locomotive factories, which, in turn, dramatically tightened other related industries. And they need metal, respectively, locomotive building requires the advanced development of metallurgy. On the basis of the intensive growth of the metallurgical industry, it is possible to dramatically revive the metal-working industry, and accordingly, saturate the market with hardware, ensure profitability of the state industry, acquire working capital and make urgently necessary for the restoration of the fixed capital of industry. Figuratively speaking, Dzerzhinsky decided to make a locomotive the locomotive of Soviet economic growth. Stalin supported his plan, which allowed to solve the main political task - to overthrow the economic power of the peasantry by creating large commodity industries based on the large-scale use of machinery and equipment produced in Soviet factories. Hence, the main method of solving this problem was industrialization, that is, the concentration of industrial management in one headquarters and the concentration of state capital in a single industrial budget.

With his usual energy, Dzerzhinsky was actively involved in the work on the economic transformation of the country and reached, without exaggeration, fantastic results. When he became the head of the Supreme Economic Council, 1,55 million tonnes of pig iron, 1,62 million tonnes of steel were smelted in the USSR, 1,40 million tonnes of rolled products were produced. As of 20 in July, 1926, when Dzerzhinsky did not become, pig iron smelting amounted to 2,20 million tons, steel - 2,91 million tons, rolled steel production - 2,26 million tons. That is, growth reached, respectively, 70,4, 55,8 and 61,8%!

It should be noted that the load of factories in 1926 for the first time exceeded the level of 1913 of the year, making 101%. Moreover, in the same year, the USSR entered the 7-place for the smelting of iron and 6-the place for the smelting of steel in the world. Already in the 1926 year, that is, through the 2 year, the USSR accounted for 3,2% of world steel production!

And more about the success of Dzerzhinsky in the economic sphere. It was during this period that, under his leadership, the OGPU developed a highly effective system of combating economic crimes, the functions of which were assigned to the Economic Department of the OGPU. At the same time, the first stones were laid in the foundation of the extremely powerful scientific and technical intelligence of the USSR, which played a huge role in the development of the economy and the growth of the defense power of the Soviet Union.

Dzerzhinsky was an ardent opponent of the bureaucracy, its methods of governing the state and the economy, he tried with all his might to get rid of the bureaucratic "paralysis of life" and, in his words, "unheard of fuss with all sorts of approvals." He spoke out for the development of small-scale private trade, for putting the private merchant "in healthy conditions", protecting him from the arbitrariness of the officials. His works were not in vain. Until March, 1950-s in the USSR existed a developed system of private entrepreneurship, which, according to various estimates, ranged from 114 to 142 thousand private enterprises of various organizational forms (mainly artels and cooperatives) and private entrepreneurs (almost analogous to modern entrepreneurs). This system gave 6% of national GDP! And not only in the civil sectors of the economy, but also in the field of defense production and even in breakthrough, knowledge-intensive industries. Most importantly, the system operated with such a simple registration and taxation procedure that there were no obstacles to the development of private initiative.

Without using any privileges, being distinguished by genuine asceticism in everything, including refusal from personal security and food in the same dining room with ordinary employees, Felix Edmundovich worked on 18 hours a day. Eduard Herriot, the French Prime Minister, gave Dzerzhinsky the following description: “The gold of all the thrones of the world could not divert Dzerzhinsky from the intended goal. Even his implacable enemies sometimes bow their heads before his moral purity. ”

TELLS VLADIMIR DZERZHINSKY
And now we will return to our interlocutor - Vladimir Mikhailovich Dzerzhinsky. He is the grandson of Stanislav - the brother of Felix Edmundovich.

- I have been studying our family tree since 1989. We found a lot of documents, photographs and, most importantly, relatives: only 20 families live abroad (France, Switzerland). We began this work together with Felix Yanovich Dzerzhinsky, unfortunately, now deceased. Our family estate is located in the Minsk region of Belarus and is called the Museum-Estate Dzerzhinovo. It was burned down by the Germans in July 1943 and restored at the initiative of the heads of the special services of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine in 2004. The three Felix brothers graduated from universities, were highly educated people, and participated in the Resistance, working in the Gestapo under foreign names. One of the brothers, Casimir and his wife, Lucius, acted for three years in 15 km from the estate, participated in the Ivanets Krairovoy uprising, but were extradited and executed by the Germans, and the estate was burned. The same fate befell Vladislav, the famous neurologist. At one time, even before the creation of the Cheka, he was so sharply opposed to the revolutionary changes that he fell under execution. Felix Edmundovich personally signed the verdict. However, Lenin, learning of this, struck his brother from the list, saying to Felix: "We must work more with the family." But the Germans in the 1942 year, shot Vladislav. Our family honors the memory of all the brothers. September 11 The first museum opened in Ivenets in Belarus, where more 1957 items were transferred. After the Dzerzhinovo estate was restored, part of these exhibits were transferred to the museum-estate. The KGB of Belarus holds celebrations there: meetings of veterans, dedication to security officers.

- And how was the memory of the young Felix?

- He was born in a beautiful place - surrounded by forests, on the banks of the river. Naturally, the clothes quickly wore out, and he bought a new one. But he came home in worn clothes and answered the surprised questions: “I changed with my peers - they need it more”. And when he was in school, he gave breakfasts to poor children.

- Probably, in addition to a heightened sense of justice, his courage must be noted. How did he, for example, behave during the July Left Socialist-Revolutionary insurrection 6?

- Yes, after the assassination of the German ambassador von Mirbach Blumkin, he personally appeared at the left-Socialist-Revolutionary headquarters of the Cheka and, threatening with execution on the spot, demanded the immediate issuance of Blumkin. However, he himself was arrested and taken hostage by the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries. This is an act. I had to be in Butyrka prison. There in the museum there is a section dedicated to Dzerzhinsky, where notes with his words are kept that people who are not hard-working, not cruel to prisoners should work in Butyrka prison.

- Felix Edmundovich still enjoys indisputable authority among the workers of the special services, who directly declare: "We are the children of Dzerzhinsky."

- I think when Vladimir Ilyich Lenin at the Sovnarkom meeting proposed the candidacy of Felix Edmundovich, he made this choice consciously, knowing Dzerzhinsky as a dedicated wrestler, well-versed in people, knew his personal courage and perseverance, because after spending so many years in dungeons, this the man did not break or harden in the shower. Because of this, he became chairman of the Cheka.

- Lenin was convinced that, having stood at the head of a powerful organization that performs punitive functions in relation to the enemies of the revolution, Dzerzhinsky will not abuse the power given to him, will not use it for personal purposes.

- So it was. Moreover, many of the arrested counterrevolutionaries and conspirators, being arrested, sought to interrogate him specifically. Because they knew that Dzerzhinsky is fair and will understand everything. And in April, 1919, when there was a strong famine, the Council of People's Commissars issued a decree on the voluntary surrender of gold and jewelry for the purchase of bread. Being at that moment in the estate of Dzerzhinovo, he collected all the family jewels and handed over to the state. The family archive keeps his letter to his elder sister Aldone, in which he writes that he could not do otherwise, since the law is the same for everyone. And one day he came to his sister Yadviga, who lived in Moscow. And she, knowing that his brother was poorly nourished and ill, made him pancakes. He asked where she bought flour. Jadwiga confessed that she had bought from speculators. At the same moment Dzerzhinsky grabbed a plate and threw it out the window with the pancakes. He demanded from the family to strictly observe the revolutionary legitimacy. Once, when he was on treatment in Kislovodsk, he was visited by a delegation of highlanders, who, knowing that he needed increased nutrition, brought him a lamb carcass and a keg of honey. He thanked the mountaineers and asked them to give everything to the kindergarten located opposite the children. This made such a strong impression on the inhabitants of Kislovodsk, that they still remember this case.

- And how, without having the necessary education, he managed to lead the national economy and achieve enormous success?

- You know, we, relatives, think that the natural talent, which was instilled by his parents, a favorable heredity, helped. After all, his slogan “Clean hands, warm heart, cold head” is applicable not only to the work of the special services. This is the formula for the success of business executives endowed with a high sense of statehood. It is relevant nowadays as a formula for overcoming bureaucratic lawlessness and corruption. Hence the ability to select personnel, properly arrange people, set tasks for them.

- Well, then the conclusion is: if a person did so much for the country, giving himself completely to the people, why did they so ungratefully treat his memory? Should we correct the mistake and return the monument?

- Dzerzhinsky was strict, but fair. 18 days before his death, he wrote to the government that against the policy being pursued - against the domination of officials, state blowouts, paperwork, disregard for people. And in the same note, he raises the issue of unjustified repression and unnecessary course rigidity. That is exactly what he is accused of today, he, on the contrary, struggled with it. And this is documented. And at the last plenum, after which he suffered a heart attack, he said, addressing the audience: “I will never spare myself, I always tell the truth.” He worried about the people, so that there would be neither poverty, nor oppression, nor national hostility, so that the country would be strong. Therefore, his name was assigned to the streets, factories, groups, and in 1958, the decision was made to erect a monument to him in the center of Moscow on Dzerzhinsky Square. And until 1991, this monument of the work of an outstanding sculptor Vuchetich fit perfectly into the architecture of the square, was the pride of the descendants of this great man. According to numerous polls across the country, the percentage of 70 – 80 for the return of the monument. Dzerzhinsky’s return to Lubyanka Square will not be a return to the past. It will be a reminder to law enforcement agencies of the ever-current motto: "Clean hands, a warm heart, a cold head."



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  1. +17
    17 September 2017 20: 33
    Respect to the author for the article
    1. +12
      17 September 2017 21: 03
      Excellent article! To the author +100500
      1. +11
        17 September 2017 22: 03
        This is the second article. Thank you.
  2. +16
    17 September 2017 21: 54
    A good article is to judge a person by his deeds and actions.
    1. +10
      17 September 2017 22: 41
      [/ quote] judge a person by his deeds, deeds. [quote]
      This is a universal principle, judged by deeds. If this principle is applied to “the best German Gorbi” and Obkomov drunk Yeltsin, then much will become clear even to the 20-year-old
  3. +7
    18 September 2017 04: 59
    Iron Felix.
    “Covno, captain I.N. von der Gross for the lieutenant of a separate corps of gendarmes G.V. Glazov.
    Gleb Vasilievich!
    Rotmister Ivan Nikodimovich von der Gross, I believe, deigns to invite you to an execution ... Dzerzhinsky so that you can then have a conversation with him ... If the execution does not help (permission has been obtained to spank Dzerzhinsky with birch sticks, but no more than fifty strokes so as not to result in death due to the poor health of the latter), the prisoner should be deprived of walks. There is no doubt that the twenty-year-old man will not endure such tests and will reveal to you what needs to be found out in the interests of both the Coven and Warsaw guards.
    Rotmister V. I. Shevyakov. "
    “Gracious sovereign Vladimir Ivanovich!
    For execution, which was applied twice, captain I.N. von der Gross did not take me with him. Dzerzhinsky’s food deprivation was carried out three times over the past fifteen days. Only after it became clear that all the attempts of I.N. von der Gross to persuade Dzerzhinsky to sincere repentance were unsuccessful, was I allowed to interrogate him what I refused to do in order to avoid the annoying, but, unfortunately, the rule that we have blame for the failure from a sore head to a healthy one.
    I ask for your consent to my return to Warsaw, since it is inexpedient to work with Dzerzhinsky, because the arrested person fell ill with acute consumption with heavy throat bleeding.
    Your noblest humble servant I have the honor of being
    Lieutenant Glazov. "
  4. +5
    18 September 2017 05: 02
    There was such a writer, Zazubrin. Read his Two Worlds and Sliver. The first was praised by Lenin, the second went almost unnoticed. It is about the Chekists and the Red Terror. Every person has black and white. But to sculpt their chairman of the Cheka’s Cheka .... It’s the same as making Ataman Annenkov with his black hussars a saint .... hi
    1. +2
      18 September 2017 09: 43
      But sculpt their chairman of the Cheka of the Cheka .... This is the same as ataman Annenkov with his black hussars to make a saint ....

      Annenkova can, why not? Now the time has come for anyone to sculpt anything. Annenkov, it’s just right, he’s not engaged in the fight against banditry, not restored railway not he was engaged in homeless children, because, he was doing something else, the opposite. For this, he needs to erect a monument to the grateful descendants, and if he sent a couple of hundred "red" and sympathizers to the next world, then of gold, definitely. hi
      1. +3
        18 September 2017 09: 57
        Quote: avva2012
        if he sent to the other world a couple of hundred "red" and sympathizing with them,

        Annenkov sent to the other world not only “red”, but also “white”, you start to fade, I mean the whole company of “comrades” Slid, so to speak, from the Mannerheim board to the crazy ataman.
        1. +2
          18 September 2017 10: 25
          You first read the comment without emotion, about which it actually is, and then write. Although, no, write, it is interesting from a certain point of view.
          1. +1
            18 September 2017 10: 41
            Quote: avva2012
            You first read the comment without emotion

            To take an example from Dzerzhinsky - with an ice head?
            1. +3
              18 September 2017 10: 47
              Take from anyone you want. Only comment compares, not recommends.
      2. +4
        19 September 2017 04: 23
        Annenkov was engaged in the same terror. The Bolsheviks just won. And they had to rebuild the country, which they also led to the fratricidal war as a result of the October 17 coup. The article reminded me of the Pravda newspaper and the ZhZL series a la the 80s of the last century. Everything is reminded, sleek and neutered. Yes, gentlemen like Kolchak are being whitewashed ... NOOOO ... Unlike the past century with its propaganda, now you can read and find alternative information. hi
        1. +8
          19 September 2017 05: 23
          And they had to rebuild the country, which they also led to the fratricidal war as a result of the October coup in 17.

          Unlike the last century with its propaganda,

          This, you "work" as a propagandist. You personally don’t like the Bolsheviks, that’s distorting the logic, as well as shuffling the facts as you want. “Annenkov was engaged in the same terror” (?), He was simply engaged in terror, and the Bolsheviks were already power, and the government is obliged to defend itself. She (the authorities) not only protects herself, but also the rest of the citizens. Right now, for example, Annenkov-zade wants to blow up the subway, and he has a bullet in his forehead without a trial and investigation from a FSB sniper. Terror? Yes. But I, for one, don’t like the current state structure, its ideology and, what should I compare the “Zade” and the FSB, they say they are engaged in terror? No. "And they had to rebuild the country." What do you mean? They are Power, not Annenkov the bandit. This is a property of Power, and any. “did they also lead to a fratricidal war” (?) Did they hear anything about the “triumphal march of the Soviet power”? If it were not for the Czechs (French data at that time), if not for the support of the Entente, there would have been no “fratricidal war”. The "former" would have sat like cockroaches behind the stove and not buzzed or left for the "free West", as I recall, no one interfered with them. "you can read and find alternative information," you can, only collecting information proving your own conclusions, this is your personal alternative information, a sort of Fomenkovism of the Civil War individually for you.
          1. +1
            19 September 2017 08: 02
            After the coup, the Bolsheviks seized power, or do you deny it? About the "triumphal procession." Remember the FER, what kind of education it was and whether there was power there from the point of view of the Bolsheviks. I do not like the Bolsheviks. And not monarchists with cadets. They are all good. The Bolsheviks just won. Power is instilled after victory, and before that there is a struggle for it. Both the “white” and the “red” are no different from each other in the civil war. There were all kinds of things on both sides. And bandits and dreamers. What is the difference between "red terror" and "white". Nothing. Especially for those who are being destroyed. Only the first is justified, after the victory, as they say, the winners are not judged, the second is declared evil. It all depends on who won.
            PS. I apologize for ignorance, but Fomenko did not read.
            1. +1
              19 September 2017 08: 19
              And so, remark. The fate of Sergei Lazo and captain Nesterov is no different. Only performers.
            2. +8
              19 September 2017 09: 48
              And what's the difference, did the Bolsheviks seize power or come to it through democratic voting? Catherine seized power and then killed her husband, Alexander got power after the murder of his father and no one does tragedy in these cases, and does not say anything about the illegitimacy of power (the subsequent terror of those who disagree), everything is calm.
              The “Reds” differed radically from the “Whites” in that they fought not for class privileges, bank accounts, land allotments and other selfish interests, but for a new socio-economic formation. And, interestingly, actively talking and writing about the "red terror" is those who then safely got attached to the Wehrmacht, and a little later, to the warmed up by the Americans, the NTS, "Radio Liberty", etc., etc. . It is worth a little digging up materials on this "terror", the same Crimea and facts are not at all alternative, but they say that they shot whom, in the majority, they turned out to be people whose hands were up to their elbows in the blood. To the "red terror" add the actions of anarchists, the "green" and some others acting under the red banners, but have nothing to do with the "red" ones. There are books of historians on this subject that are worth reading, in my opinion, but Fomenko is really not worth reading.
        2. -1
          12 October 2017 03: 21
          Russian jacket
          And who are you deliberate !?
  5. +7
    18 September 2017 06: 38
    "... Behind him
    before me
    momentarily short
    such,
    with which
    portraits tightened, -
    in a crumpled coat,
    with a sharp beard,
    passed
    human,
    iron and sinew.
    Young man
    pondering
    life
    decisive
    make life with anyone
    I will say
    without hesitation-
    "Do it
    with a friend
    Dzerzhinsky "..." Vladimir Mayakovsky
    1. +2
      18 September 2017 08: 02
      The poem is unsuccessful.
      Lenin reacted negatively to Mayakovsky, so spoke of him: Shouts, invents some crooked words ....., this is a very soft assessment of the "poet"
      As regards the article, Stalin subsequently did not survive all the Chekist cadres that began when Dzerzhinsky had been destroyed. He well understood that these cadres were rabble and fiends.
      1. MrK
        +7
        18 September 2017 10: 50
        Quote: bober1982
        Stalin subsequently, all the Chekist cadres that began when Dzerzhinsky destroyed, few survived


        And Stalin and Dzerzhinsky ate all the children of street children.
        1. +3
          18 September 2017 15: 34
          This is slander. "Eaten" (shot) their parents.
          And the orphans were then brought up carefully in orphanages ...
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    1. MrK
      +9
      18 September 2017 18: 24
      Quote: ALEXEY VLADIMIROVICH
      And the term "Chekist" is a synonym for the word "executioner".

      How did your ancestors survive and give birth to you. I suppose they were hiding with denunciations
    2. 0
      18 September 2017 19: 19
      And perhaps the idea of ​​`` Clean Hands and a Hot Heart '' was at the beginning (although the fact that the detachments of the CHON and the Cheka was creating in the vast Russia is doubtful), but the monster that Stalin tried to fight and who ground in his millstones millions of fates, whose heritage is someone responsible for this Monster (or what has grown has grown and the woods are being cut; but you want to become this Sliver is not) It is no secret that the heirs of Iron Felix considered themselves Unconspicuous and created in Russia but the one who stood at the origins of this Sabbath is the Founding Father. Ask yourself, and that you still have Holy Pshek in front of you, well, then wait until his fosterlings get to your zs-ta and then see clearly but ...
    3. +5
      18 September 2017 21: 26
      Quote: ALEXEY VLADIMIROVICH
      The Cheka is a punitive organization created for the mass extermination of the population.

      "A revolution without counter-revolution does not happen and cannot be" (B, I. Lenin, PSS, vol. 12, p. 171). Therefore, stop lying, the Cheka was created to protect the Soviet regime from the encroachments of the counter-revolutionaries, including from your ancestors. If it were not for the Cheka, your brethren would have drowned, who supported the revolution, the people in blood.
      "Any revolution only then is worth something if it can defend itself, but not immediately the revolution learns to defend itself" (V.I. Lenin PSS, T.37, P.122) And so at first the Cheka released the counterrevolutionaries on parole, then for the people it cost a lot of blood.
  7. +2
    18 September 2017 13: 45
    Something two articles in a row on the Lumberjack,
    not by night will be said ... what
    Was "Why do liberals hate Iron Felix,"
    with 400 comments ... and now this one.
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    “And she, knowing that her brother is poorly fed and unhealthy, made pancakes for him. He asked where she bought flour. Jadwiga confessed that she had bought from speculators.
    At the same moment, Dzerzhinsky grabbed a plate and threw it out with the fritters into the window "////
    ----
    And he loved a sick brother ... ("I grabbed a plate and threw it out of the window with the pancakes").
    Sounds like a joke about Lenin's kindness, remember? ("go for a walk, boy, I don’t have bread ... but you could have a razor in my eyes!")
    1. +1
      18 September 2017 19: 13
      Until the November holidays, such articles will go rampant, people warm up for the 100th anniversary,these dream that people climbed the barricades, we’ll read more.
    2. 0
      18 September 2017 19: 21
      Yeah, remember a joke yet. Felix Edmundovich and I screwed a barrel of honey and it's not buzzing,
      1. +1
        19 September 2017 13: 33
        “When cholera appeared in the East, Nicholas II was a little alarmed by this circumstance, fearing that the epidemic would not be brought to St. Petersburg. Soon, His Majesty conducted a screening of the troops of the St. Petersburg Military District.

        “Brothers,” he began, “cholera is naughty in the east of our dear Fatherland. But here, in St. Petersburg, I strictly forbid you to such disgust.

        “Glad to try, Your Majesty,” the soldiers answered with one voice. "
  8. +2
    18 September 2017 16: 55
    I would not want to make sharp assessments, but later Comrade. Until 1935, Stalin cleaned the organs of the heritage of Sverdlov-Dzerzhinsky. Before Heinrich Yagoda, who went to Sverdlov as his henchmen. And I think Comrade. Stalin was right. As there was in the conversation between Lenin and Gorky:
    (Gorky) -This is a real example of a revolutionary (Dzerzhinsky)
    (Lenin) - That you are my friend, - his eyes are like that of an ascetic, and a thief.
    There was a dark story there in an attempt to free the great princes for an astronomical sum. Gleb Bokiy was engaged in - the confidant of Dzerzhinsky.
    1. +2
      18 September 2017 17: 59
      Quote: Zloy
      Gleb Bokiy is a confidant of Dzerzhinsky.

      this same Gleb Bokiy is a curious person, Stalin shot him later, a Chekist-shaman, he looked for something like a philosopher's stone + sexual orgies with the entire special department, and much more. Stalin did not appreciate it.
      1. 0
        12 October 2017 03: 36
        Angry, Beaver and someone else.
        So much a Thief and a Libertine that they later appointed something like the Minister of Railway, and then something like the Prime Minister - well, so as not to deny yourself anything!?
  9. 0
    9 October 2017 17: 45
    accusations that the Tsarist regime allegedly persecuted the Poles and everything Polish was unfounded.
  10. 0
    23 November 2017 12: 49
    Well, a good article, without the current tantrums .... To the author plus.

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