Felix is ​​waiting

On the evening of August 22, 1991, when Moscow had already celebrated the victory over the puffers with might and main, thousands of people came to Dzerzhinsky Square to the Dzerzhinsky monument near the KGB of the USSR. The 11-ton founder of the Cheka looked at the audience without sympathy. The power of the Chekists ended. The Chekists, by the way, also looked at the rooms of the most terrible house in the Union gathered through the dark windows of the cabinets. But now it was their turn to be afraid.

On the neck of Felix (by the way, bronze, and not iron) they threw a rope, the rope was attached to the truck. Someone realized that if so to fill up the statue of Wuchetich’s work, the metro station may suffer. Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Council Sergey Stankevich held the protesters. On his initiative, the Moscow City Council rapidly decided to dismantle the monument. In the night of Felix, they carefully removed the crane from the pedestal. Chekist No. 1 hung over the square, which still bore his name ... and went to the wasteland behind the new Tretyakov Gallery building. He was not set - they put it on the ground. Later, they began to bring other dismantled leaders there. So the Museon Park arose.

But for Felix, as for Russia, this turned out to be only the beginning of history.

At the very end of the nineties, Alexander Prokhanov, who suddenly (and then for a short time) became a Putinist, published a text about his vision in the newspaper Tomorrow: the Black Volga rushes through an empty Moscow, near the Central House of Sciences, it comes out of a certain mysterious one and - covers the lying felix with a general overcoat. "In order not to freeze."

In 2002, Yuri Luzhkov proposed to return Felix to Lubyanka. They answered him with mockery, and now the deceased architect Vyacheslav Glazychev published a mocking project: to return Felix, but to install in the pit, and cover with a flower bed and a fountain on top. The Chekist remained at the Museum among other retirees.

The Communists were repeatedly spoiled to restore the monument in the same place. In 2015, they even achieved the right to collect signatures for a referendum on this issue and - on their own statements - collected 150 thousand (this is more than necessary according to the law). But they did not take signature sheets in the election room - they are waiting for the "suitable time."

And Felix, which has not been lying since 2007, but stands on the pedestal, is also waiting. Times are changing: the Chekists are not afraid of anyone again, and it’s almost fashionable to be afraid of the Chekists.