(September 11, 1876-July 20, 1926)
Born into a wealthy Polish family
Birth name was Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy
Expelled from school for spouting communist propaganda
Spent most of his early life in prison and in Siberia
Freed from the jail in Moscow (1917)
Joined the Bolshevik Party
Head of the Cheka, Russia's secret police and its successor organizations
Minister of the Interior (1921-1924)
Member of the Politburo (1924-1926)
Died of a heart attack at 49

He was a zealous communist.
His security apparatus was vicious in its suppression of the opposition during the Russian Civil War and afterwards.
He was born into a rich family but joined a party that discriminated against the upper class.
The full English name of the Cheka was 'All Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-revolution and Sabotage.'
His last name is hard to pronounce.

He was honest and incorruptible.
There were six towns, numerous institutions and locations, named after him.
It is often said that he was not ambitious.
His statue was toppled by a crowd of people after the fall of the Soviet Union (1991).

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