Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky was the Polish-born first security chief of Bolshevik Russia. He headed the CHEKA, the original secret security service of the Revolution -- and he became known as "Iron Felix" and "Bloody Felix." Ruthless, possessed by the coldest attitude concerning killing, a real "man in the right place," he was the first Bolshevik Angel of the Apocalypse. His death from heart failure in 1926 deprived Stalin of an outstanding hangman and professional killer of the highest order.
