BBC: Russian communists look to reinstate 'Iron Felix' statue
When the 11-tonne statue of Soviet secret police chief Felix Dzerzhinsky was toppled in Moscow in 1991 it was seen by many as a symbol of freedom.
Just a few months later, the Soviet Union collapsed.
Although the statue was given a new home in a sculpture park, Russian communists are campaigning for a referendum on returning it to its original spot and are confident they can gather enough support for an official vote.
To his modern-day supporters, Dzerzhinsky was a true patriot.
Update: 'Iron Felix' rears his ugly head in Moscow -- Deutsche Welle
WNU Editor: My Moscow condo is between Red Square and the old KGB building. The idea that some Communists want to put up that old statue makes me sick .... but from what I hear, the city administrators will not permit its return. In the meantime .... putting up plaques and/or memorials to the victims of Communism is a process that takes forever .... Humble Memorials for Stalin’s Victims in Moscow (New Yorker). On a side note .... my condo used to belong to my father's best friend .... he was a ten year old living in that apartment with his parents when the KGB came to take them away (he never saw them again after that). I wanted to put a plaque up to commemorate what happened to them earlier this year .... but it figures .... I needed unanimous consent among the other condo owners, but the one lone old communist who lives in the basement and who brags about the time he served as a lowly security guard under Stalin in the 1940s (he is 95 years old now and who has lived there forever) .... was the one who nixed the plan. On a positive note .... he is 94 .... has no family (and no friends in the building) .... and everyone supports what I want to do. And as I told him earlier this year ... time is on my side, and when he is gone I will make sure I will put an extra plaque beside his door of the family that lived there in the 1930s .... but who also disappeared in Stalin's gulags in the 1930s.
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