CHIEF OF CHEKA DIES, AFTER CAREER OF MURDER.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. ** Sydney Sun ” Cable. MOSCOW, July 21. Dzerzhinsky, Chief of the Chekka, is dead. Alternately known as the “Black Pope of Bolshevism” and the “Russian Butcher,” it is estimated that Dzerzhinsky was responsible for the execution of 1.250,000 people after the most horrible tortures. Personally fanatically honest and unbribable he could use every means of bribery, corruption. intimidation and betrayal in the interests of the campaign of wholesale murder. He was perhaps a psychological riddle, but it explains Dzerzhinsky's power.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17905, 22 July 1926, Page 10
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