On July 20, 1926, Felix Dzerzhinsky, head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counterrevolution and Sabotage, commonly known as the Cheka or the Cheka, died of a heart attack in Moscow. The Pole was one of the founders of the totalitarian regime in Soviet Russia, responsible for the deaths of thousands of human beings.

“The Cheka's actions were carried out with such brutality and ruthlessness that a civilized mind cannot comprehend”. - Sidney Reilly, who was in Russia during the October Revolution, wrote in his diary.
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- Prof. Pawel Wieczorkiewicz talks about Felix Dzerzhinsky in “Characters of the 20th Century.” (PR, 22.06.1997)

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