#felix dzerzhinsky

[mastomysowner]

On September 11, 1877, 147 years ago, Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed Iron Felix, was born.

He is known as a Soviet political figure, founder and first head of the Cheka/GPU/OGPU, People's Commissar of Railways and, at the same time, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs.

Felix Dzerzhinsky was also the chairman of the commission to combat homelessness, and the initiator of the creation of the Dynamo sports society. He died in 1926 from a heart attack.

[historyandchill]

Dzierzynski and Stalin

[pateralba]

[commiearabgirll]

The heart lockets from my short lived commie faves everyday series :3

[worker-and-soldier]

The Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee. (1917)

[marcellseyes]

theyre on a date

[sudensk-the-stallionist]

i've been looking at some soviet carpets for fun cuz i had seen lots of lenin ones in the past and. help. there's for A LOT of bolsheviks 😭 like first there's ordzhonikidze

alright cool. not much to comment then theres molotov here and like. wow?? hes not the prettiest here but how did they make this design like this. like usually they all look pretty blocky

after that we've got stalin with ooold voroshilov and they look so uncanny here lol. but i love me some voroshilov so no way i'm complaining

then there's. dzerzhinsky?? i certainly didnt expect felix out of all people but well hes here

also smiling stalin + young stalin. cutee

plus some fidel for variety's sake

theres also lots of pretty ones unrelated to specific people. like this one's just gorgeous

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

List of Polish people I respect:

- Felix "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky

- Rosa Luxembourg

- BJ Blazkowicz and Anya Oliwa

- Geralt of Rivia

- the specific person(s) at CDPR who used subsidies from the Polish government to create the gay sex scenes in Cyberpunk 2077

- roundabout guy

[new-dinosaurs]

Titanoperdix felixi Zelenkov et al., 2023 (new genus and species)

(Type coracoid of Titanoperdix felixi, from Zelenkov et al., 2023)

Meaning of name: Titanoperdix = titan [in Greek] Perdix [genus of partridges including the gray partridge]; felixi = for Felix Yanovich Dzerzhinsky [Russian zoologist who passed away in 2015]

Age: Pleistocene (Gelasian)

Where found: Malye Goly, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia

How much is known: A fragmentary right coracoid.

Notes: Titanoperdix was a phasianid, a group that includes chickens, partridges, and turkeys. It appears to have been closely related to extant partridges in the genus Perdix, such as the gray partridge (P. perdix). However, it was much larger, being about the size of a male black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix).

Reference: Zelenkov, N., E. Palastrova, N. Martynovich, A. Klementiev, A. Sizov, and N. Volkova. 2023. A tiny duck (Sibirionetta formozovi sp. nov.), a giant grey partridge (Titanoperdix felixi gen. et sp. nov.), a new rail (Porzana payevskyi sp. nov.), and other birds from the Early Pleistocene of Baikalian Siberia. Biological Communications 68: 261–272. doi: 10.21638/spbu03.2023.406

[historyandchill]

Feliks Dzierżyński 👐🏻 my beloved.

[milfstalin]

i didnt know that felix dzerzhinsky served cunt...

[dzerzhinskylover]

“...I should like so much to perceive the beauty in nature, in people, in what they create, to delight in them, to perfect myself, because beauty and goodness are like two sisters. The asceticism that has fallen to my lot is so alien to me. I would like to be a father and put into the soul of a young creature everything good that is on the earth, to see how the rays of my love for it would produce a luxuriant blossom of the human soul....”

- Felix Dzerzhinsky

October 22 (9), 1905

(The discrepancy between dates is due to the differences between the czarist and modern Gregorian calendar)

(The statue is in Moscow and was designed by Grigory Zakharov. It was originally in front of the Lubyanka building but has since been taken apart, discarded, and recently put back up in front of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Building. This as part of the efforts of the current fascist government in Russia to co-opt heroes from the Soviet era, including Felix Dzerzhinsky)

[gladioagent]

A picture dated November 7 ,1990 shows the monument of Soviet KGB founder Felix Dzerzhinski, pictured with the KGB building, decorated with Lenin's portrait in the background in Moscow.

[ramesseum]

Knight of the Revolution" [Felix Dzerzhinsky] - Painting by Anatoly Pavlovich Levitin, 1983.

[amielbjacobs]

my kingdom for a good english language biography about Felix Dzerzhinsky that isn't pro-Soviet propaganda

[mariacallous]

A bust of Joseph Stalin was installed at the Mednoye memorial complex for victims of wars and repressions in Russia’s Tver region, reports online outlet 7×7, referencing Tver activist Daniil Korpusov. The memorial is at a site where both victims of Soviet repression and executed Polish prisoners of war are buried.

Monuments to Vladimir Lenin, Felix Dzerzhinsky, and Mikhail Kalinin are also being mounted in the complex. Korpusov’s photos show that the opening of the exhibition is scheduled for October 19. The Mednoye website has no information about the exhibition.

“Now the liars have become more skillful — they don't tear down monuments and force you to forget. They chatter on and on about it. And then, when ‘everything isn’t so black and white’ is at its climax, you can throw in the mustached ghoul. So that anyone who, by fate, ends up at a memorial site, won’t see the tragedy of thousands of ruined lives, but a multicolored hodgepodge," Korpusov wrote.