Putin Renames Police Unit After Bloody Cheka Founder Dzerzhinsky

Moscow Times ^ | September 23, 2014 | Staff

[Lazamataz]

They’re here, scroll down.

Prince Regent George IV was well-known for his excessive appetite and extravagant dress.

[1rudeboy]

Is this a Ukrainian press release?

[VeniVidiVici]

How Stalinesque of Vlad.

[No One Special]

He was a bureaucrat who performed his appointed tasks with uncommon zeal.

We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new order of life. We judge quickly. In most cases only a day passes between the apprehension of the criminal and his sentence. When confronted with evidence criminals in almost every case confess; and what argument can have greater weight than a criminal's own confession.
--Felix Dzerzhinsky

[mac_truck]

Are they going to hold torchlight parades in his honor like the Ukies do for their dead Nazi heros?

[Tailgunner Joe]

Once a chekist, always a chekist.

[1rudeboy]

What’s funny is that none of the Borscht Brigade is defending this—the best they can do is, “look, squirrel!”