A new park with a memorial sign was opened in Kostroma using FSB funding.
The park replaced a former vacant lot. With funding from the FSB, it was equipped with benches, a memorial sign with a shield and sword, and plaques outlining the "historical stages in the development of security agencies since 1917."
"It makes any Kostroma resident's heart happy when such parks appear in their hometown," wrote The governor posted on his Telegram channel Sergey Sitnikov and called FSB officers “guardian angels for each of us.”
The official also emphasized that the formation of state security agencies occurred during a “difficult, turning point.”
“And then, as today, we saw many heroic deeds—both in foreign intelligence and counterintelligence, in confronting the special services that were trying to destabilize the situation in the state— Sitnikov is convinced. Today is a time of different challenges. The team at the Kostroma FSB office is conducting very serious, largely invisible, work—identifying those who are prepared to commit treason or terrorist acts.
Last month at a children's camp Nizhny Tagil have opened a monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Cheka, who was one of the ideologists of the "Red Terror" and was at the forefront of the Gulag. At least two more monuments to Dzerzhinsky were unveiled last fall—in the very Nizhny Tagil и FindIn total, more than 40 monuments and busts have been erected to him in Russia.
According to the journalist Mikhail Zygar, this spring received "political decision" to return the Dzerzhinsky monument to the FSB building Lubyanka (it was removed from the square in 1991 after the failure of the State Emergency Committee).
Photo: Sergey Sitnikov's Telegram channel