- Born
- September 11, 1877
- Died
- July 20, 1926 (aged 48)
- Known as
- politician, revolutionary, communist
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed Iron Felix, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first three Soviet secret police organizations—the Cheka, the GPU and the OGPU—establishing state security organs for the new Soviet government.
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