Grave of the communist revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926) at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow, Russia

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Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (11 September 1877 - 20 July 1926) was a Communist revolutionary, famous as the first director of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka, known later by many names during the history of the Soviet Union. The agency became notorious for torture and mass summary executions, performed especially during the Red Terror and the Russian Civil War.

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Size: 3744px × 5616px
Location: Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Red Square, Moscow, Russia, Eastern Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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