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"Either saints or scoundrels can serve in the organs."

“He who becomes cruel and whose heart remains insensitive towards the prisoners must leave here. Here, as in no other place, one must be kind and noble.” ( Felix Dzerzhinsky)

"The Cheka is terrifying because of its merciless repression and complete impenetrability to anyone's gaze." ( Nikolai Krylenko)

“For the time being, bodies and investigators who are incompetent and even simply ignorant in matters of production, technology, etc., will fester in prisons of technicians and engineers on charges of some kind of ridiculous, ignorant people invented crimes - “technical sabotage” or “economic espionage” foreign capital will not go to Russia for any serious work ... We will not establish a single serious concession and commercial enterprise in Russia unless we give some definite guarantees against the arbitrariness of the Cheka. ( Leonid Krasin)

“Our enemies created whole legends about the all-seeing eyes of the Cheka, about the ubiquitous ones. They imagined them as some kind of huge army. They did not understand what the strength of the Cheka was. And it consisted in the same thing as the strength of the Communist Party - in the complete confidence of the working masses. “Our strength is in the millions,” said Felix Edmundovich. The people believed the Chekists and helped them in the fight against the enemies of the revolution. Dzerzhinsky's assistants were not only Chekists, but thousands of vigilant Soviet patriots. ( Fedor Fomin, Notes of an Old Chekist)

“Dear Vladimir Ilyich! Maintaining good relations with Turkey is impossible as long as the current actions of the Chekists on the Black Sea coast continue. Because of this, a number of conflicts have already arisen with America, Germany and Persia ... The Black Sea Chekists quarrel with us in turn with all the powers whose representatives fall into the area of ​​​​their operations. Agents of the Cheka, invested with unlimited power, do not reckon with any rules. ( Letter from Georgy Chicherin to Vladimir Lenin)

“Arrest the lousy Chekists and bring the guilty to Moscow and shoot them.<…>We will always support you if Gorbunov manages to bring the KGB bastard under execution.” ( From Lenin's answer to Chicherin)

Diploma to the badge "Honored Worker of the NKVD". (wikipedia.org)

“Blinded by the burgeoning personality cult of Stalin, many employees of the organs began to lose their bearings and could not distinguish where the Leninist line ended and something completely alien to it began. Gradually, most of them fell under the influence of Yagoda and became an obedient tool in his hands, performing tasks that deviated more and more from the line of Lenin-Dzerzhinsky.

“Gradually, I learned from my subordinates more and more details about the black deeds perpetrated by the workers of the Novosibirsk NKVD. In particular, that Gorbach ordered the arrest and execution as German spies of almost all former soldiers and officers who were held captive in Germany during the First World War (and there were about 25,000 of them in the vast Novosibirsk region at that time). About the terrible torture and beatings that the arrested were subjected to during the investigation. I was also told that the former regional prosecutor, who arrived at the UNKVD to check the cases, was immediately arrested and committed suicide by jumping out of a window from the fifth floor.”

“Most of the old Chekists were convinced that with the arrival of Yezhov in the NKVD, we would finally return to the traditions of Dzerzhinsky, we would get rid of the unhealthy atmosphere and the careerist, disintegrating and lipish tendencies implanted in recent years in the organs by Yagoda. After all, Yezhov, as secretary of the Central Committee, was close to Stalin, in whom we then believed, and we believed that the organs would now have a firm and faithful hand of the Central Committee. At the same time, most of us believed that Yagoda, as a good administrator and organizer, would bring order to the People's Commissariat of Communications and bring great benefits there.

These hopes of yours were not destined to come true. Soon such a wave of repressions began, to which not only the Trotskyites and Zinovievists were subjected, but also the workers of the NKVD, who were badly fighting them. ( Mikhail Shreider, “NKVD from the inside. Notes of the Chekist ")

Yezhov caricature. Boris Efimov, 1937. (wikipedia.org)

“Both in Soviet times, and in modern times, one could join the ranks of the “Chekists” only if they had excellent physical and mental health. This is no coincidence. In this profession, “professional use” and “professional harm” alternate every now and then, sometimes colliding with each other. With such collisions, good health is indispensable. ” ( Eugene Sapiro, "Treatise on Luck")

“I am still sure that among the Chekists 20 percent are idiots, and the rest are just cynics.” ( From an interview with Gabriel Superfin)

Created by Dzerzhinsky and his colleagues, the Cheka has grown into one of the most effective special services in the world, which was feared, hated and respected, including by the worst enemies of our country. But not only this, he went down in history. In addition to his Chekist activities, Dzerzhinsky became, perhaps, the most famous fighter against child homelessness in the history of our country.

Recently, disputes have not subsided about whether or not to return the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky to the Lubyanka. If you want to better understand what kind of person the founder of the Cheka was, I bring to your attention his statements:

- To live - does not this mean to have an unshakable faith in victory?

- A Chekist must have a warm heart, a cold head and clean hands.

“He who becomes cruel and whose heart remains insensitive towards the prisoners must leave here. Here, as in no other place, you need to be kind and noble.

- A person can only sympathize with a social misfortune if he sympathizes with any specific misfortune of each individual person.

“Your task is enormous: to educate and mold the souls of your children. Be vigilant! For the fault or merit of children to a large extent falls on the head and conscience of the parents.

- Only such a remedy can correct, which will make the guilty realize that he acted badly, that he must live and act differently. The rod only works for a short time; when children grow up and cease to be afraid of her, conscience disappears with her.

– Fear will not teach children to distinguish good from evil; whoever fears pain will always succumb to evil.

“I am not preaching that we should isolate ourselves from abroad. This is complete absurdity. But we must create a favorable regime for the development of those industries that are vital and in which we can compete with them.

- In order for the state not to go bankrupt, it is necessary to solve the problem of state apparatuses. Uncontrollable swelling of the states, monstrous bureaucratization of every business - mountains of papers and hundreds of thousands of hacks; captures of large buildings and premises; car epidemic; millions of excesses. This is the legal feeding and devouring of state property by these locusts. In addition to this, unheard of, shameless bribery, theft, negligence, flagrant mismanagement, which characterizes our so-called "self-supporting", crimes pumping state property into private pockets.

- Where there is love, there is no suffering that could break a person. The real misfortune is selfishness. If you love only yourself, then with the advent of difficult life trials, a person curses his fate and experiences terrible torment. And where there is love and care for others, there is no despair...

- He who has an idea and who is alive cannot be useless, unless he himself renounces his idea.

“Faith must be followed by works.

– In whatever difficult conditions you have to live, do not lose heart, because faith in your own strength and the desire to live for others is a huge strength.

– Life, a concrete practice, opens up new opportunities for us every day, so we need to start more not from paper, but from life.

“The worst enemy could not bring us as much harm as he brought with his nightmarish reprisals, executions, granting soldiers the right to rob towns and villages. He did all this in the name of our Soviet power, inciting the entire population against us. Plunder and violence - this was a deliberate military tactic, which, while giving us fleeting success, brought defeat and disgrace as a result. Dzerzhinsky about the Socialist-Revolutionary Mikhail Muravyov, April 1918.

The dirty hands

Original taken from avmalgin the dirty hands

Well, comrade Astakhov, you are an incorrigible KGB nit, so you entrust the governors with the fate of those dozens of children who have found parents and for whom the courts are scheduled for January and February? But they are already used to mom and dad, they flew to them more than once across the ocean, children count the days before leaving for the family (who knows how to count), in the evenings they kiss their photos, try to remember their smell, sniffing the toys that were brought to them mom and dad from this distant America? They never knew parental affection, mother did not take them to her bed, did not breastfeed them, did not hug them, did not sing a lullaby, they do not even know what a nipple is. Many were on the street only in the hands of these parents who appeared, as in a fairy tale. And before that, their whole short, unhappy life is a barracks. Are you going to come to them to announce that you and Uncle Putin did not allow them to live in a family with people who managed to love and accept them, with all their illnesses and with a difficult fate? Rooms with cheerful curtains have already been prepared and furnished for them, prostheses have already been ordered, boxes with medical nutrition are in the corridor, doctors who have studied their diagnoses are waiting for them, numerous relatives are waiting for them, already on balloons with which they were supposed to arrive at the airport to meet, it is written: "Hello, Vanya!" "Hi, Nyusha!"

What would you say to these children if, on the appointed day, not mom and dad with a stroller or wheelchair just bought, but you, Chekist Astakhov, come to them? Or maybe you will lie to them that, they say, your new dad and mom abandoned you? They changed their minds, they will take another, healthy one. What words can you find? This is your homeland, son, I don’t know another such country, where a person breathes so freely? My heart would break if I were sent there with this news. And your?

What did your Dzerzhinsky say about you and Putin? "Only a person with a cold head, a warm heart and clean hands can be a Chekist." It seems so? So: your hands are dirty, your heart is cold, and in your head you have a stinking mess instead of brains. As your highest achievement, you present the news that, it turns out, those 14 hostages on whom the courts were held in December, after all, after conferring in your circle, you decided to release. I remember those terrible shots from Dubrovka and Beslan, when the child hostages, crouching down, run out from the terrorists - because at some point the terrorists decided to release some portion for some reason of their own. And so they run, these little figures, through the empty space, shot by snipers, and we think, will they run? - Do you remember, Chekist creature, these shots? So: you and your Putin are exactly the same terrorists. And you captured not three hundred people, and not a thousand. And not even these orphans. You, security officers with dirty hands and a cold heart, have captured all of Russia, creatures.

Now go and sue me, offended virtue. Is there already such an article in your criminal code: "Slanderers of Russia"? Haven't entered yet?

Concern for state security arises at the time of the emergence of the state.

And today, on the day of security workers, I would like to trace the history of the emergence of a service responsible for the security of our state.

According to archival data, special services in Russia existed long before the appearance of the well-known Cheka.

The first mention of crimes against the state - sedition, are found in the Sudebnik of 1497. The first legislative foundations for the activities of special services, for example, in terms of protecting the tsar or members of the royal family, are in the Cathedral Code of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich: wounds (...) that slayer, for that slaughter he himself will be executed by death.

Under Peter I, the body of political investigation and court, the Preobrazhensky Prikaz, was responsible for state security, which was investigating the “Words and deeds of the sovereign” (the so-called denunciations of state crimes). Together with the Preobrazhensky order, the Secret Chancellery also acted.

Over time, these organizations reformed, changed, becoming either the Secret Expedition under the Senate, or the Third Branch of His Own Imperial Majesty's Chancellery, and so on.

It was the Third Department of the Chancellery that became the “real” special service in the classical sense of the word. She was in charge of questions about the activities of sects, about counterfeiters, monitoring foreigners arriving in Russia, and so on.

After the revolution, the new state needed a new body to protect the state security of the RSFSR. On December 20, 1917 (December 7, according to the old style), the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage was formed by a Decree of the Council of People's Commissars. F.E. became the head of the all-powerful Cheka. Dzerzhinsky. The name of the Cheka will not last long. A few years later, the Cheka will be replaced by the GPU, then the GPU will turn into the OGPU, and in 1934 the state security agencies will be transferred to the NKVD of the USSR.

After several regular changes in names and reorganizations in March 1954, a new structure will be created under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, which the whole world will know about - the State Security Committee.

The powerful KGB will exist until the collapse of the USSR, and in 1995 a new structure responsible for state security will be formed - the Federal Security Service.

"Clean hands, warm heart, cold head"