Translated from Мой ZOV Политзаключенная Фейсбука Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, a revolutionary and, later, an outstanding Soviet statesman, founder and leader of the All-Russian Emergency Commission (VChK), as well as law enforcement troops of the Soviet period, was born on September 11th, 1877. Dzerzhinsky headed dozens of different commissions, combating child homelessness, delivering food to the areas of central #Russia hit by famine, eliminating the fuel #crisis in Donbass