In 2022, the Russians stole a dismantled monument to Dzerzhinsky from Kherson

In 2022, the Russians stole from Kherson a dismantled monument to the head of the repressive All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, Felix Dzerzhinsky.

Volodymyr Saldo, the head of the occupation administration of the region, wrote about the theft.

He called the theft of the monument an evacuation. The monument to Dzerzhynskyi was erected opposite the building of the regional office of the Security Service of Ukraine on Luteranska Street.

It was removed the day after the removal from power of the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, on February 23, 2014.

According to Saldo, the initiators of dismantling the monument in order to protect it from “vandals” were allegedly employees of the regional office of the Security Service of Ukraine. After dismantling, the monument was located on the territory of the Kherson Water Canal.

Felix Dzerzhinsky was born on September 11, 1877 in modern Belarus. As the head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, he is considered one of the organizers of the “Red Terror”.

In addition to the Soviet law enforcement agencies, he headed the People’s Commissariat (Ministry) of Communications and the Supreme Council of the National Economy.

The latter was the central state economic management body in the Soviet Union and its republics.