Movement “Young Follower of Dzerzhinsky” to be created in Belarus

An experimental military and patriotic camp for teenagers is opened near Minsk.

Teens will run battle marches, shoot from combat arms and have trainings with riot militia, STV channel reports.

The organizers plan to enlist some groups of teenagers and train them during the whole summer. These projects are planned to be included in the new movement “Young Follower of Dzerzhinsky”.

Felix Dzerzhinsky is known as the first chairman of the All-Russia Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-revolution and Sabotage (the Cheka) and one of the organizers of the Red Terror. As a Cheka chief, he carried out a cruel policy of repressions against opponents of the Bolshevik regime. He initiated mass terror and provocations, was one of the organizers of the mass terror in the Crimea from November 1920 to March 1921, where about 500 people were executed according to official Soviet data. Dzerzhinsky became head of the GPU (State Political Directorate) in 1922.