Friday 17 August 2018

The secret Soviet organization that explains what Russia is doing today.

Yuri Andropov, Felix E. Dzerzhinsky and Vladimir Putin.
(Yahoo News photo Illustration; photos: AP, Getty)

In November 1921, Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Soviet Union’s secret police known as the Cheka, had a plan. Four years earlier, the Bolsheviks had expelled the Romanov dynasty and established the world’s first Communist government. Western European intelligence agencies, fearful of communism, sought to infiltrate the Soviet Union, while the powerful White Russians had fled to European capitals like Paris and Berlin, from where they hoped to plot the czar’s return.

Dzerzhinsky’s plan involved a prisoner, Alexander Yakushev,  then sitting in the infamous Lubyanka prison in central Moscow. Although Yakushev had worked for the Soviet government, the Cheka had discovered his secret allegiance to the czar, arrested him and threw him into the Lubyanka, where in future years alleged enemies of the people would be executed on the flimsiest pretenses.

Dzerzhinsky wanted an indirect means of neutralizing the enemies of the Soviet Union, of fooling and confusing them so thoroughly that they would lose all sense of moral and political direction.




By Alexander Nazaryan.
Full story at Yahoo News.

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