Putin Plans to Return Dzerzhinsky Statue to Moscow's Lubyanka Square Soon, Zygar Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, May 30 – The Putin regime is planning to put the statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Cheka,whose removal in August 1991 signaled the collapse of communism in the USSR, back up in Lubyanka Square in front of what was KGB headquarters and now is that of the FSB, according to Mikhail Zygar.

            The well-connected telegram channel author made that statement in his column for the German news magazine Der Spiegel and suggests this action will occur soon, close to the 35^th anniversary of when the statue was taken down and close to the 35^th anniversary of that action (vot-tak.tv/93559691/pamyatnik-dzerzhinskomu-moskva-vozvrashenie).

            More than 40 monuments of Dzerzhinsky have been put up in the Russian Federation since Putin came to power, but the return of the largest one to the Lubyanka Square would certainly lead many to decide that the current Kremlin leader plans to take Russia back even further toward the aggressiveness and repression of Soviet times.