Young Dzerzhinsky wanted to go to the seminary and promised to shoot himself if he was convinced in the absence of God
The chairman of the Cheka Felix Dzerzhinsky in his youth was deeply believers, but departed from the church, including on the basis of romantic relations with gymnasium students, says Alexander Plekhanov, professor of the Department of Russian FSB Academy of the FSB. “He really believed in God and even said:“ If they convince me that there is no God, I will be shot, ”A. Plekhanov said in an interview with the newspaper Izvestia about the youthful period of the Iron Felix biography.