CHIEF OF THE CHEKKA.
DEATH. OF “THE RUSSIAN
BUTCHER,”
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT
MOSCOW, July 21. The death has occurred of Dzerzhinsky, Chief of the Chekka. LONDON, July 21. Alternatively known .as “the Black Pop© of Bolshevism,” and “the Russian 'Butcher,” Dzerzhinsky is estimated (to have been responsible for the execution of 1,250,000 people after the mast horrible, torture.
The Times, states : “How a man personaily faniaitieailly honest and nnbribable could use every means of bribery, corruption, intimidation and betrayal in. the interests of a campaign of wholesale murder is .perhaps 1 a-' psychological riddle, hut it explains Dzerzhinsky’s power,”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 July 1926, Page 5
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