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  Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iron Felix also refers to his monument at the Lubyanka Square in Moscow, near the KGB headquarters.
Symbolically, the Memorial to the Victims of the Gulag (a simple stone from Solovki) was erected beside the Iron Felix; the latter was removed in August, 1991.
An exact copy of the statue of Iron Felix that pro-democracy crowds tore down in Moscow in 1991, was unveiled in Belarusian capital Minsk on March 26, 2006 [1].
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 Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy (September 11, 1876 - July 20, 1926) (there are a number of alternate spellings of his name) was a Polish Communist and head of the Bolshevik secret police the Cheka, later the KGB.
He was appointed by Lenin to organise a force to combat internal political threats and on December 20 the establishment of the Vecheka (All Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-revolution and Sabotage) was passed by the Council of Peoples Commissars.
At the end of the Civil War in 1922, the Cheka was changed into the GPU (State Political Directorate) a section of the NKVD, but this did not diminish Dzerzhinskiy's power: from 1921-24 he was Minister of Interior, head of the Cheka/GPU/OGPU, Minister for Communications and head of the Russian Council of National Economy.
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 Felix Walker (american Politician) info here at en.90of100d.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Felix Walker (19 July 1753 - 1828) was a Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina 1817 und 1823.
Back in 1820 Felix Walker, who represented Buncombe County, North Carolina, in the U.S. House of Representatives, was worked out that their aria be heard on their constituents' behalf, everyday though the matter up for debate was irrelevant to Walker's parish und he had tender to contribute.
To the exasperation of their colleagues, Walker insisted on delivering a outstretched und wearisome "speech for Buncombe." His persistent -- if insignificant -- harangue made "buncombe" (later respelled "bunkum") a synonym for meaningless political claptrap und subsequent for all humanitarian of nonsense.
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Lubyanka Square is best known for Aleksey Schusev's large yellow brick building which has been the headquarters of the KGB in its various incarnations.
The square was renamed Dzerzhinsky Square for many years, in honor of the founder of the Soviet security service, Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed Iron Felix.
A monumental statue of Dzerzhinsky was erected in the center of the square.
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