Agi: Putin intitola l'Accademia dei servizi al capo della polizia di Stalin

AGI - Nell'ambito di una lunga e regolare campagna del Cremlino per la riabilitazione di Stalin, il presidente russo, Vladimir Putin, ha dato ordine di rinominare l'Accademia dei Servizi segreti (Fsb) in onore di Felix Dzerzhinsky, fondatore e primo direttore della famigerata Cheka, la polizia segreta sovietica. "Considerato l'eccezionale contributo di F.E. Dzerzhinsky alla sicurezza dello Stato", è la motivazione che si legge nel decreto di Putin. È la prima volta che il leader del Cremlino - anche lui ex studente dell'Accademia dell'Fsb - esprime pubblicamente un giudizio così positivo sulla personalità di "Felix di ferro", figura simbolo della repressione dell'era sovietica, artefice del Terrore Rosso che seguì la Rivoluzione del 1917.
L'Fsb oggi si considera l'erede della Cheka
Il predecessore dell'Accademia dell'Fsb, la Scuola Superiore del Kgb dell'Urss, portò il nome di Dzerzhinsky fino al 1992, quando l'Unione Sovietica non esisteva più. Putin ha espresso rammarico solo poche volte per la rimozione avvenuta nel 1991 dalla Piazza Lubyanka a Mosca, sede del Kgb e poi Fsb, del monumento a Dzerzhinsky; la statua di Felix di Ferro è stata messa 'a riposare' in un giardino di altri monumenti dell'epoca sovietica, vicino al famoso Parco Gorky nella capitale e ora si teme che torni presto nella sua collocazione originaria.
Il Partito comunista della Federazione Russa ha ripetutamente chiesto il ritorno di Dzerzhinsky alla Lubyanka. L'idea sarebbe di rimuovere dalla piazza la Pietra di Solovetsky, il monumento eretto in memoria delle vittime della repressione politica nell'Urss, e riportarvi la statua del fondatore della polizia segreta, tra i responsabili di quelle uccisioni. La rinascita dell'Accademia Dzerzhinsky dell'Fsb "è un evento simbolico importante, che offre un quadro chiaro degli ideali delle persone più potenti della Russia", fa notare la nota giornalista indipendente russa, Farida Rustamova.

Putin names the Stalin-era chief of police academy

In the context of a long and regular Kremlin campaign to rehabilitate Stalin, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the renaming of the Security Services Academy (FSB) in honor of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder and first director of the infamous Cheka, the Soviet secret police. “Considering the exceptional contribution of F.E. Dzerzhinsky to the security of the State,” is the justification read in Putin’s decree. It is the first time the Kremlin leader – also a former student of the FSB Academy – has publicly expressed such a positive judgment on the personality of “Iron Felix,” a symbol figure of repression during the Soviet era, the architect of the Red Terror that followed the 1917 Revolution.

The FSB today considers itself the heir of the Cheka.

The predecessor of the FSB Academy, the Superior School of the KGB of the USSR, bore Dzerzhinsky’s name until 1992, when the Soviet Union no longer existed. Putin has expressed regret only a few times regarding the removal in 1991 from Lubyanka Square in Moscow, headquarters of the KGB and then the FSB, of the Dzerzhinsky monument; the statue of Iron Felix was placed ‘in repose’ in a garden of other monuments of the Soviet era, near the famous Gorky Park in the capital and now it is feared that it will soon return to its original location.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation has repeatedly called for the return of Dzerzhinsky to Lubyanka. The idea would be to remove from the square the Solovetsky Stone, the monument erected in memory of the victims of political repression in the USSR, and to bring back the statue of the founder of the secret police, one of the perpetrators of those killings. The rebirth of the Dzerzhinsky FSB Academy "is an important symbolic event, which offers a clear picture of the ideals of the most powerful people in Russia,” notes independent Russian journalist Farida Rustamova.

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