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@Velsero Says:
Ahh, Felix, who made Beria look gentle, mild mannered, and well behaved by comparison.
@peterfox7404 Says:
Tom Bell gave a fantastic portrayal of him in Reilly, Ace of Spies. He stole every scene.
@pandorapassin5932 Says:
He plays an important role in Reilly Ace of Spies
@KemalistComrade Says:
Love comrade Felix from Poland
@majkczajson7532 Says:
That's a national hero of Poland, at least for me, rest of the Poles rather hate him, without him secret police of commies would never work so effectively. He's not very well known, probably because second WW brings much much more of an attention, so the times before it aren't known that great, at least outside of small circle of ex USSR countries and ex socialist republics. That's pretty interesting considering the fact that, he literally created the most cruel secret organizations to this day. Jokes aside these times were so incredibly cruel and fearsome it's insane. Officially 15, but in truth 30 million people were executed. Fear of the people, especially these associated with bourgeoisie, or loyalist forces of Tsar's side, was beyond something you can imagine. "Factories of death" or just human slaughterhouses were built, special facilities made to murder enemies of state in tens of thousands in very short time. These buildings were designed to execute people by shot to the head, blood of the victims was drained through specially constructed system of gutters. The worst part of this genocide, was the fact that chekists and executioners, after some time became completely emotionless and numb to all this atrocities. Ordering execution as another formality needed to be done. They didn't care about anything. They could tell you, while looking you right in the eyes that you'll be executed and they did it without any emotion. Trust me, these times were beyond everything that's human. Russian people had no idea what they were doing, how the entire revolution will end. A lot of russian intelligence wanted revolution too, well they didn't know they will be one of the first to be murdered. Fun fact, Dzierżyński's brother was running a school, and when he wanted something to be done, like repairs or other things like that, he signed the letters with his name and postscript saying Felikse's brother. You can imagine how fast everything was done.
@DimaRus-mw5zp Says:
RIP iron Felix we need you now more than ever ❤
@JimBombo-oz3et Says:
Trotsky was a traitor
@jouniheiskanen5629 Says:
You have a great channel and I have really enjoyed your informative take on the subjects you deal with. One point of improvement though: For those names of places, could you add some kind of written info box and possible changes or if different writing system then also add the name in the original language and also if you have to dig up name changes along the way if there has been any. Like many of the former USSR names of places might have changed. This could make i.e tracking of those escapes and other exiles easier for those who are interested. Thank you
@d.k8746 Says:
harvard historian richard pipes, in his book "the russian revolution" verifies that "3 quarters of the staff of the cheka were ..... many of them riff raff, incapable of any other work, cut of from the ... community although carefull to spare fellow...."
@lukasmiller486 Says:
Woke History Teacher: The Cheka never happened.
@danielalvarez-galan3702 Says:
Warm heart,Cold mind
@the_Biggest_Guy Says:
Imagine talking about a guy and not even being able to spell his name correctly lol (its Feliks Dzierżyński)
@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 Says:
Extraordinary times call for extraordinarily actions
@ernestomendez2173 Says:
Viva la revolución de octubre 🚩
@genrihk164 Says:
Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef "the Bad", Soviet Edition.
@ithiriaa.a573 Says:
Felix Dzerzhinsky. que inviertan tanto en manipular con propaganda como esta me hizo ver la importancia de un verdadero revolucionario. slava Dzerzhinsky <3
@qv81 Says:
One of the main squares in Warsaw was named after him. I remember the statue. Durin tge fall of the communism it was taken down and damaged. The footage was shown in the news all over the world.
@AmonRa-z8w Says:
Боже мой сколько бреда
Железным Феликсом его назвали из-за того что ему кинули гранату в кабинет а он спрятался в железном сейфе
@tonevoss7601 Says:
😀under dzerinski comrade there were no Donald trump's or j.p.morgans ,mamon ,,money or riches were distributed evenly ,a commune 😀either a soldier or worker based on the ant community,,, and Cheka willenforce it 😈all former white soldiers were hacked to death with axes in public to let people know that comrade lucky Felix is in charge and watching constantly encouraged by comrade Stalin 😈the red terror,,🔥🔥🔥
@tonevoss7601 Says:
😈Oh by the way 🔥your name came up ,🔥 you are suspected of being associated to the Romanovs come on let's go for a ride,🌹 where did he go,,,🔥 I don't know he said he wanted to go skiing in Siberia 😗I heard him say he fell in love with a Kazakhstani girl 😗he said he's going to go look for her in Siberia ,,,,wait a minute ,,in winter 😗uhhhhm he's a good skier, he's being uhhhh re educated uhhh yeah that's right he's being re. Educated by uhhhh Cheka 😈,don't worry he will be back they uhhh sent him to uhhh katyn forest 🔥🔥🔥
@daniarorynbayev8530 Says:
who the hell is je-je-nits-key?
@arturocordovamelgarejo8277 Says:
Falta traduccion al español
@cantsay2205 Says:
I think we can all agree that we should not allow this to happen in the US.
@anthonybarrett7456 Says:
NICE , COMING TOO A COUNTRY NEAR US ALL ?
@thembabethuelnkosi4086 Says:
Theres more of Felix in Putin 🤞
@blueduncan9522 Says:
A red salute to Iron Felix ✊🚩
@martinvekov8143 Says:
basically 'scum of the earth' type of person.
@tyryonolofing3405 Says:
A hillariously cruel and merciless leader, the one who established basically terror method of fighting anyone who dared even to say anything against the Regime. Workaholic on a verge of maniac. Person, which even acquired now a city with his own name - guess who was given there flats?
The first sign of what is actually 'the Soviet power' is, now hus succecors terrorize more, than only their own country. Final judgement of the sins of state defenders is inevitable: again they shall be deemed unnecessary by the state itself, and no one will ever care for the fate of those who's work always was eating the people alive. Nothing is eternal, and their power so - and i will do anything in my hands, to put an end to their misery and cruelty.
@tumyp38 Says:
Just call him Felix man🤣
@christiansimon3749 Says:
One evil man
@guyphillips13 Says:
Could you cover Genrikh Yagoda?
@heberpelagio7161 Says:
Felix Dzerzhinsky's story serves to contradict those who try to describe Lenin and Stalin as antagonistic examples in terms of character and ideals: he was the right hand man of both them!
@ruturajshiralkar5566 Says:
Simon bro, plz make a video on NKVD Chiefs Vyachislav Menzhinsky & Genrikh Yagoda and CCP General Secretary Brezhnev. Also make one on Andrei Gromyko, the Mr Nyet.
@lukejohnston7785 Says:
The Who really got it so right when they sang " meet the new boss, same as the old boss ". No matter the revolution, nothing changes.
@ThomasG.-hh9gg Says:
Now you know why the Germans were worried and good old Felix was Jewish also
@koba687 Says:
His actions were justified!
@briandoss9232 Says:
Huh. I expected him to be a larger player on the worlds stages.
@alankovacik1928 Says:
3:20 -40 C = - 40F.
@skepticseeker Says:
Lies and Lies, Felix's father was polish NOT juuish...he was of polish nobility.
@FoxMacLeod2501 Says:
I was really surprised that Kerensky was (mistakenly?) represented by a pic of Mads Mikkelsen! (11:54)
Then I looked more closely.
@VonFreklstein Says:
Uritsky was killed on orders of British spies Reilly and Lockhart. They were on fact busy planning a coup, but this was foiled by the Red Terror. According to them Kaplan ruined their plans.
@slow_bitter73 Says:
How can anyone know this about these people and still be sympathetic to the Soviet Union? They're just as bad, probably worse than Hitler.
@michaelmallal9101 Says:
I'd like to protect liquor stores.
@kroulinka Says:
Simon, can you do a biography about someone from Poland?
@olexandrs6639 Says:
Ur research on historic matters is again extremely poor.
Dzekzhynskyy organized 2 assassination attempts on Lenin.
Lenin created Cheka to kill other bolsheviks.
U not mentioned murder of Germam ambassador... (Dzerzhinskyy attempt to undermine Lenin's authority by sparking war against Germany against peace policy of Lenin.
@garyfrombrooklyn Says:
Your biographies are so interesting. It makes one aspire to become famous so they can be featured on your channel. Famous or infamous lol
@tomfrazier1103 Says:
And that's why some of Grandma's family came here, those whom lived.
@johnnymansker1257 Says:
Uhhhh 1980? Did I hear that?
@astrladam4392 Says:
Russian history is an embarrassing history of savagery and bleakness
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