In the Yasenevo district of Moscow, on the territory of the headquarters of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), a small copy of the monument to the founder of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (VChK) Felix Dzerzhinsky was installed. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to its own correspondent.
From 1958 to 1991, a similar monument, but of a larger size, was erected on Dzerzhinskaya Square, which is now called Lubyanskaya. In those days, it was located opposite the complex of buildings of the KGB of the USSR. The sculpture created by Yevgeny Vuchetich was dismantled on the night of August 22-23, 1991, after the “August putsch.” The new monument in Yasenevo was unveiled by the head of the SVR, Sergei Naryshkin.
“The image of the chairman of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission became one of the symbols of his time, a standard of crystal honesty, dedication and fidelity to duty. His winged words that only a person with a cool head, a warm heart and clean hands can become a security officer have become a significant moral guideline for several generations of security officials in our country,” Naryshkin said.
Two years ago In the “Active Citizen” application, a survey was conducted regarding the return of the Dzerzhinsky monument to Lubyanka Square. Two days later, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stopped the voting because, in his words, it turned into “a confrontation between people holding different views,” Meduza noted.