Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky - Head of the CheKa, Architect of the Red Terror
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Any high school graduate is capable of doing this themself for a LOT less.
you should make a video about the first ruler of Rome Romulus
Comparing Felix to Himmler is promoting fascism
“The fact you are free is not achievement, but rather a failure on our side”
Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky
Source?
Sauce?
Based
Poor Simon… Saying the surname Dzerzhinskiy so many time just broke him. He just gave up at some point 😂😂😂
I cannot figure why sometimes he would say the name correctly, while most times he did not. Quite honestly, it became frustrating to me.
And wrong every time
Quite fascinating seeing someone making a 23 minute video on someone and misspelling the name so often.
A lot of English speakers don’t like to put effort into reading and pronouncing Russian or Russian adjacent names. It’s sad but true. And the name doesn’t even have to be complicated. I live in the US with the simple name of AYNA………..you read that as ANYA didn’t you? So I’m just patient with fact boy and his Dezhenitsky and Zhezhenitsky. He’s got good facts, few grammatical errors and is fun to watch. ❤
@@aynaniyaz8213 Somewhere by the end it morphed into Rzeźnicki wchich means "Butcher's", very fitting
When Lenin was creating and staffing the Cheka, Lenin reportedly said, “Where can I find a Fouqier-Tinville?” [i.e., Robespierre’s feared head of the secret police]. Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville Biographics next, Simon!! Please!!
The boss of Citoyen Bibot in Scarlet Pimpernel! Mamzelle Guillotine! Death to the Aristos!
Yes please
More French Revolution figures for sure.
@@rockytopbritt Go read history!
Thank you for covering the often-overlooked Felix Dzerzhinsky.
Here's a Polish joke with dark humour: Who is the greatest Pole in history?
A. Felix Dzerzhinsky, the Polish-born founder of the Cheka, forerunner of the KGB.
Q. Why?
A. Because no Pole killed more Russians.
Btw, dear Simon, could make a video about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk pls?
I just watched an Atatürk bio on The People’s Profiles like 2 days ago. Fascinating man!
@@elizabethbeierle7464 Kraut also has a pretty good video on him and Turkey as a whole
Wasn't be "Belarusian-born"?
@@jameskresl his name is dhershinsky
You're right. A member of the tribe who was born in Minsk.
Simon, your constant efficacy as a public speaker gives me hope for humanity.
Simon didn't say "Dzerzhinsky" the same way twice 😂
Imagine working so hard that Stalin tells you to slow down
He's the definition of a workaholic
🤣🤣🤦🏼♂️
Requesting D.P Upham. Former soldier in Arkansas that was brutal against the KKK when it was a popular front in the state. Put many klansmen to death and pretty much wiped out the group from the state for decades
Isn't that what your supposed to do with formerly treasonous terrorists?
What a Chad
There a is a dark joke in Poland, that Feliks Dzierżyński should be considered Polish greatest national hero, because there is no other Pole who kill so many Russians. :v Unfortunately every nation has theirs monsters. :v
And yet, this monster still has some remaining monuments dedicated to him in Russia, and a new one was erected in recent years.
BTW, do you know that most members of the Dzierżyński family, including the own siblings of Feliks, didn't want to have anything to do with him and were Polish patriots?
For example, one of his brothers Władysław Dzierżyński was an accomplished neurologist, a military physician with the rank of the colonel of the Polish Army, and a member of the Home Army during the German occupation. The nazi Germans have caught him and imprisoned in the horrible Radogoszcz Prison in Łódź. He was murdered alongside 100 other Poles in the public mass execution in Zgierz on the 20th of March 1942.
@@Artur_M. I am far of blaming family for someone's sins. Feliks Dzierżyński was a monster and this does not mean that anyone from his family should be resposonsible for what he done. And yet I know he has still monuments, heck, he has whole cities name in his honour. 🙄
William S Burroughs II would be an awesome addition to this channel. He had a wild life, and I enjoyed your Hunter S Thompson video. You’ll do him Justice. 👍
Could we have a biographic on Georgy Malenkov?
"When I said no problem, what I meant was: 'No. Problem'"
Why? Didn't you see "Death of Stalin"?
@@j3lny425 fake film
This is the earliest I have been and that quote in the beginning is legit the energy of 23
Starting the morning off right! Thanks Simon and Co. 🍻
Thank you for the video.
Great range of topics. Maps would be really helpful. Thanks.
Felix Dzerzhinsky's story serves to contradict those who try to describe Lenin and Stalin as antagonistic examples in terms of character and ideals: he was the right hand man of both them!
Whats funny, if he got up to even a tiny percentage of what he did under the Soviets or Russians (in opposition), he'd find himself quickly falling from a balcony
I don't remember ever seeing anything on this guy. Love new info 👍👍
Great video. Next August Von Mackenson- fascinating figure and amazing officer.
Your biographies are so interesting. It makes one aspire to become famous so they can be featured on your channel. Famous or infamous lol
William Westmoreland, the general who lost Vietnam next
The CIA and the Democrat Congress and Senate lost us Vietnam.
@@anon_148one B52 raid on one of the agricultural dikes and the NVA would’ve come to terms.
Hundreds of thousands of lives on all sides were saved as a result if that were done.
No war at all. You need to grow food above all.
@@markgarrett3647 😄😄😀😀😆😆😂😂😃😃😅😅🤔🤔😀😀😄😄
@@anon_148Actually, no. Relations between Beijing and Hanoi broke down and Mao himself said that China would not come to North Vietnam’s defense unless the coalition pushed past the Chinese border
Do a Geographics on the Lubyanka!
The FIRST name that comes to mind when I think of Red Terror besides Stalin or Lenin is Lavrentiy Beria. Had never heard of this guy but thanks for the info and history
Beria was a trustee of Stalin in later years when the Great Purge was. The Red Terror was happening during the Civil War, just after the revolution, and was mainly a reaction to the brutal White Terror by the White forces, who hunted down supporters of the Bolsheviks and occasionally burned down entire villages
One day I will see a video here about Thomas Cochrane, the 10th Earl of Dundonald... Hopes are high that someone in Simon's crew will see this comment and write a script about him 🤞🤞
Ahh, yes, Iron Felix. When young, I studied up on the Cheka and he really was some piece of work. I'm not surprised that some in Russia revere him--after all, Putin is an ex-Chekist (in its iteration of the KGB).
to get an insight into him, translate Vladimir and Putin. he is madly trying to live up to his name.
I often wonder what the world would be like if more young people today had studied the past like this. Seems like research and learning are slowly becoming a lost art these days
@@em1osmurf Well, Putin was a chekist so that doesn't surprise me. Vladimir means master of the workd. I'm not sure about his last name.
@@glennrugar9248 They certainly seem to be.
Iron Felix , a fanatical Bolshevik, attended the same Polish school in Vilnius as Jozef Pilsudski, the Polish socialist and military leader who led Poland to independence in 1918. Both were from minor gentry families. Dzierzynski is regarded by Poles with mixed feelings, on the one hand representing Moscow imperial communism and on the other the Pole who most probably had killed the greatest number of Russians!
Could you cover Thomas Egan, the Irish mobster who made the Egan Rats, he took over Saint Lewis I think. Or just that Egan Rats in general, there’s a book on it I want to get, but there’s hardly any thing on it even though it sounds pretty significant drying the prohibition era in America. Also, just sounds like a fun interesting topic for the channel since a lot of people like mobster stories I think.
Who is Saint Lewis?
@@_malprivate2543 it’s a city In Missouri, it’s the place with the Gateway Arch
@@jde7052 No, that is St Louis. Why do you lie?
Not sure where to post this but I would like to see a today I found out or a biographics on “Simon whistler”
Simon, could you please consider an episode on Alberto Santos Dumont, the Brazilian Father of Flight?
Maybe a video on coco chanel would be cool, her biography has been done to death but extremely interesting character none the less
Minus 40 identical in Fahrenheit and Celius
I remember that being a question on a chemistry test in high school.
Had alot of thermometers over the years. The ones with both F and C scale had minus 40 at the bottom. Never got that cold here
Simon bro, plz make a video on NKVD Chiefs Vyachislav Menzhinsky & Genrikh Yagoda and CCP General Secretary Brezhnev. Also make one on Andrei Gromyko, the Mr Nyet.
The Tsar did himself no favors by resisting reforms and brutally cracking down on anyone who dared opposed him. He practically signed his family's death warrants.
That’s a little extreme but yea he had major tunnel Vision
Ceausescu when?
Good video Simon, your videos are great keep going. One suggestion I give you is from my country Australia is Gough Whitlam the most controversial Prime Minister who was sacked by the Governor-General during a constitutional crisis it was massive and is still talked about to this day.
They either die early from health or are eventually purged
Russia's Heinrich Himmler. The difference is that Himmler is universally condemned by all except the mentally unbalanced while Dzerzhinsky is not only held in high regard by an important faction of Russian society but the Russian people has refused, unequivocally, to confront her dark past.
Very well put
@@alexkowalewski He lived in Russia and worked for the Russian state
@@ZeroResurrected Russian state was dead in 1917, all after is zionist crap
@@ZeroResurrected He was born in the Russian Empire and became the key player in the Red Terror imposed by Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Today there are many Russians, including those who work with or are veterans of the successors of the Cheka, who eulogize Dzerzhinsky and his legacy.
I thought Russias Himler was Berija.
I'm sorry, but already at the beginning of this video, at 1:17, there is a serious error: where did you get the idea that Edmund Dzierżyński was Jewish? Both of Felix's parents came from Polish Catholic families of noble descent. It's not a source of pride for me as a Pole (and it certainly was not for the majority of Felix's relatives), but it's important to point out for the sake of accuracy.
Also, falsey claimming that bloody Felix had Jewish roots, when the popular association between Jewish people and Bolshevism has been and is used to justify antisemitic hatred, is a very irresponsible thing to do.
I agree. We Gentiles have done far more damage to the world than a small ethnic group.
His brother was a doctor in Poland and was executed by Germans in 1942.
@ture Indeed, Władysław Dzierżyński. He was also a member of the underground Home Army. Got imprisoned in the brutal Radogoszcz Prison in Łódź and killed in the mass public execution in Zgierz. Another brother, Kazimierz Dzierżyński was also executed by Germans for helping Polish partisans in 1943. Feliks was very much a black sheep in a family of Polish patriots.
@Xcrysis No, some were really Jewish or had Jewish ancestry; Trotsky, Zinoviev, Karl Radek, Feliks Kon... but Dzierżyński was definitely *not* one of them, and neither was, for example, Stalin or Dzierżyński's immediate successor - Menzhinsky (Mężyński).
@@anon_148 I don't know, maybe because some people are convinced that basicaly all Bolsheviks were Jewish (and vice versa) and invested in spreading this misconception. Maybe he picked Yiddish up in his youth. in Vilnius (Wilno/Vilna) where he was going to school about 40% of the inhabitants spoke Yiddish, which BTW is very similar to German and I assume he had an interest in learning German. Also, I suspect that he specifically would be interested in knowing what the Bundists were up to, so knowing Yiddish would be useful. I also suspect that his Polish background is poorly understood, even among the "experts" on Russian and Soviet history, as is Polish history in general. For example, when people hear about nobles, they might imagine some rich aristocrats being 1% of the population, when in the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the nobility (szlachta) was something like 8%, many were quite poor, and the situation of most deteriorated under the Russian rule, especially after the 1863-64 failed uprising.
do a video on vasili mitrokhin
Could you do an episode on Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Fifth of Spain?
Karl V of the HRE, Carlos el Primero de España. He may have been the fifth Charles (Karl) to rule the Holy Roman Empire, but he was also the FIRST Charles (Carlos) to rule Spain. 😁
20:00 Whats the name of the music
Ivan III deserves a video.
Time for a villain's origin story.
Simon, can you do a biography about someone from Poland?
Died of a heart attack? Gotta be a lie, I’m fairly certain you need a heart for that.
That's what idealists forget, especially the idealists from the Left; these monsters are/were human, and often seemed quite normal by the standards of their time. Ordinary people became the thugs of various revolutions, Brown Shirts, Blackshirts, and Pol Pot's torturers, Mao's Red Guard and more.
Maybe he got a totally safe and effective Climate Change shot.💉
Dzerzhinsky began the fight against homelessness children and gave the children of the USSR a future. It is a pity that American “historians” do not take this into account. Oh, and there is still homelessness children in America...
Can you do Manfred Von Manstein?
No….
@@brianjones7660 Cockroach nobody asked you
Do one on Prince Hall ASAP !!!!!
One of my favourite. They relay don't make thema like that anymore. SD ans Gestapo learned from him.
Repeat after me.
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Your word is taken as fact, make it worth the effing effort.
Someone with a knowledge of both languageges could have written his name in Czech alphabet for Simon ;) It would sound much better.
The orphanages were also a great source of hiring opportunites for NKVD.
As Napoleon, the ultimate leader of the animals in Animal Farm, does with the puppies of the dogs - take them away to be reared by his followers and later become his private bllod-thirsty executioners
And Talmud schools.
If your are looking for blind obedient executioners, always always search amongst the disfiguered, disabled, downtrotten and otherwise forgotten people..They will never fail and never question those who gave even a slight of bread and life..
@@annemettefrederiksen7751 This is very obvious in Portland USA
you should make a biographic video about the first ruler of Rome Romulus.
Much of that is surrounded in myth. He may have not been a real person.
@@matthewdopler8997 uhh idk people believe moses was a real person and the stories about him are as fake or even more fake than romulus.
Is this that one dude from the Gulag Archipelago
Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef "the Bad", Soviet Edition.
make a getulio video Getúlio Vargas,The most important president that Brazil had
And that's why some of Grandma's family came here, those whom lived.
I read something though i forgot the name of the newsreel. It is said that before he died he had realized his mistake and had a heavy burden on his conscience.he was thinking of distancing himself from stalin. But he died suddenly
Please do Booker T. Washington next
Where are you getting those two n’s from?
The Who really got it so right when they sang " meet the new boss, same as the old boss ". No matter the revolution, nothing changes.
Do a bio on Nicholas the second the last Tsar?
You mean Alexander the third
Wait wait wait...Belarus ISN'T still part of the Russian empire?
Belarus is basically just brownnosing Russia, don't worry
Belarus is an artificial state just like Ukraine. They’re all Rus.
@Gerald H telling historical truths is considered trolling now?
I was really surprised that Kerensky was (mistakenly?) represented by a pic of Mads Mikkelsen! (11:54)
Then I looked more closely.
✌️ Simon
Wow I thought Stalin would have him killed. It turns out he was used to the end.
One of the main squares in Warsaw was named after him. I remember the statue. Durin tge fall of the communism it was taken down and damaged. The footage was shown in the news all over the world.
Could you cover Genrikh Yagoda?
no, the comment section would be filled with disgusting degenerates who think communism is jewish
It is spelled Jershinski/Jerzhinski
On the topic on communists, David Alfaro Siqueiros might be a fascinating person for a biographies topic. Lived quite the uhhhh..... eventful life 🤔
How about doing one on Aleksandr Karelin? Hell saying all his nicknames will take 10 mins
A true revolutionary Hero ...this guy was made of iron. Call him what you want no one can doubt his truth
He was a ruthless butcher and nothing more
@@DominikKost he did nothing wrong
@@NBrioDaZueraRules You're a lunatic
@@NBrioDaZueraRulesHe was a psychotic maniac and a mad dog that had to be put down
Can you do a video on Coco Chanel. She’s got a super dark story involving WWII Germans apparently
Paul gray please
Fun fact, Celsius or Fahrenheit it’s still 40 below😂
Good catch 👍🏻
Felix Dzerzhinsky. que inviertan tanto en manipular con propaganda como esta me hizo ver la importancia de un verdadero revolucionario. slava Dzerzhinsky
2023, Simon still can't spell the names of the famous foreigners.
Harshness is sometimes needed
This video is a breakdown of Field Security..... and so a matter of Internal Security.
The Letters of the State Security organ name change but the methods and paranoia do not.
Once a Chekist always a Chekist.... current leadership of a nation included.
Great Hero! Eternal Glory Comrade Feliks!
Can you do Micheal Jackson
Bayard Rustin
Barry Goldwater
Joseph Smith
Is the polish hero. No one kill more Russian that our Feliks
Huh. I expected him to be a larger player on the worlds stages.
On escapes the police on the way to Yakutsk and the next sentence he's in Krakow -- narrative seems to have skipped quite a journey there.
Maxim Gorky Biographics Please
Well, well, well. You're going dark.
Боже мой сколько бреда
Железным Феликсом его назвали из-за того что ему кинули гранату в кабинет а он спрятался в железном сейфе
NICE , COMING TOO A COUNTRY NEAR US ALL ?
The first of Stalin's himmlers. His most advanced student: lavrently beria
I'd like to protect liquor stores.
Lenin had Dzerzhinsky
Hitler had Himmler
Stalin had Beria
Castro had Che
Mao had Zhou
Deng had Li
I can see why in the Soviet Union they just shot you, cause this guy showed on how it’s just easy to slip authority in style. Homeboy here Slick Rick multiple times.
Just call him Felix man🤣
You're looking like floki from vikings
What an extraordinary man! Very inspiring!
He was like a kind of "bolshevik Himmler"...👀
Lies and Lies, Felix's father was polish NOT juuish...he was of polish nobility.
Should totally do a Biographics video on Bill Nye the Science Guy.
I think we can all agree that we should not allow this to happen in the US.
it should but unfortunately it won't
@@NBrioDaZueraRules why would you want this to happen
can you do August von Mackensen please
this is to do with my possible great grandad bible john-
hi um so i might be related to this man. my nans dad. they lived in glasgow and nan hated her dad he was an alcoholic he beated her mother. after all the news got public and the drawings were published. her dad came home in the middle of the night and he randomly decided to move down south to hampshire. he still thinks it was him and it is something i reallly would love to find out.