Russia rehabilitates Felix Dzerjinski, organizer of Bolshevik terror

The Kremlin signed a decree renaming the FSB academy in honor of Felix Dzerjinski, creator of the Soviet secret police.

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This decision symbolizes the rehabilitation of a figure of Stalinist repression by contemporary Russia.

The move reflects a glorification of authoritarianism in Russian memory politics.

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