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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A bronze statue of "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky, the ruthless founder of the Soviet secret police and architect of the Red Terror which followed the ...

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MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow election officials cleared the way Thursday for a popular vote on whether to restore a statue of the Soviet secret police’s founder to a square in central Moscow. The referendum’s ...

MOSCOW -- The Kremlin opposes a plan to return a statue of Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky to the pedestal it was torn from during the collapse of the Soviet Union, an official said ...