Why did Felix come back?

Derzhinsky, Lubyanka and memory erasure

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On the Big Stream, journalist Andrei Kalitin* talks about the return of Dzerzhinsky’s name to public politics: the renaming of the FSB Academy, the demolition of memorials to victims of repression in Tomsk, Nazino Island, Kolpashevo Yar and the state’s attempt to rewrite the memory of its own crimes. Why did Dzerzhinsky “not leave”? Why should the authorities fight not only the present, but also the past? And why does the memory of repression become a matter of the future?

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