SVR chief Sergei Naryshkin praised Dzerzhinsky as a "symbol of his time" and a "standard of crystal honesty" during the unveiling ceremony on Monday.
"He remained true to his ideals to the end -- the ideals of goodness and justice," Naryshkin said
No. Poland gained independence in 1918 after 123 years of not existing on a map by being partitioned.
The polish ruling class will tell you that the partition happened because of the foreign destroying Poland from the inside, but really our nobility has a long standing tradition of selling our country for a pack of cigarettes.
After 1918 we were an independent country of which borders were actually historically remade and we fortunately didn't get the British treatment. And also the whole thing was a fucking mess.