Voting started in Moscow on the choice of the monument on Lubyanka

The vote was initiated by the Public Chamber of Moscow. In response to the Chamber's proposal to return the "Iron Felix" to the Lubyanka, many people posted indignant publications in the media and social networks, calling for the idea of glorifying the "era of terror" and the politician associated with it to be abandoned. Residents of the capital recalled that it was no accident that the figure of Dzerzhinsky, as a symbol of repression during the 1991 putsch, was overthrown from the pedestal.

As an alternative, the residents suggested putting not Felix on the square, but the terrible Voronezh Alenka as an “image of the Motherland” in the current conditions. And some spoke in favor of the figure of Tsar Ivan III.

Continuing the public discussion about the relevance of "Bloody Felix", Deputy Director General of the Moscow Kremlin Museums for Research Andrei Batalov supported the idea to replace Dzerzhinsky with a monument to Alexander Nevsky on Lubyanskaya Square opposite the FSB building.

As a result, Nevsky and Dzerzhinsky were shortlisted for voting.

"Residents of the city were asked to choose who the monument will be erected - Prince Alexander Nevsky or the revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky", - RT reports.

As the political scientist Alexander Shmelyov commented on the idea with the installation of Felix, the figure of Dzerzhinsky on the square really "should be returned".

“But you don’t need a pedestal under it. Let it hang on cranes like in the photo. In this case, historical justice will be restored at least a little - even if at a purely symbolic level. Well, it will be useful for employees of a well-known organization to observe this picture from the windows of their offices every day. As a reminder that historical justice is such a thing", - the political scientist noted.