The Red Terror continues to spread across the country.

The monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky was erected this time in Nizhny Tagil — as part of the exhibition "Park of Soviet Sculpture".

"The bust of Dzerzhinsky appeared here as a reflection of the cultural cross-section of the Soviet era, which cannot be erased from the general history of the country and which has its own historical and cultural signs and symbols," — the head of the urban sculpture sector said at the opening Alexandra Shemyakina.

Vladimir Dzerzhinsky, the great-nephew of the founder of the state security agencies and one of the organizers of the "Red Terror," attended the opening ceremony. Members of the local "Youth Army" were also invited.

"Two busts on Vagonka are apparently not enough," "Obscurantism and fear are spreading," "Has Maluta Skuratov been erected anywhere yet?", "Monuments are erected not to people, but to functions," — residents of the Sverdlovsk region comment on social networks.

Now in Russia there are already more 40 Monuments Dzerzhinsky. And in the last three weeks alone, three new ones have opened in the regions: opposite Vladivostok City Hall, in central Omsk, and in Nakhodka. 

The memory of security officers of various levels is also perpetuated in other cities of the country. Volgograd They want to name the street after the head of the Stalingrad FSB, Taganrog The plaque about the repressed was replaced with information about the "significant contribution" of NKVD officers to the liberation of the city. Memorial plaques with the names of NKVD officers were unveiled in Karelia, Oryol region, the FSB square will appear in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.