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Felix Dzerzhinsky

Born on August 30, 1877

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Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (11 September 1877 – 20 July 1926), nicknamed Iron Felix (Russian: Железный Феликс), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician of Polish origin.

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