Bolshevik revolutionary and founder of the first Soviet secret police organs (1877-1926) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Felix Dzerzhinsky was the first leader of the Cheka, or the first Soviet state security organization.[1] He was a Polish aristocrat-turned-Communist.
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