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Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Polish: Feliks Dzierżyński [ˈfɛliɡz dʑɛrˈʐɨj̃skʲi]; Russian: Фе́ликс Эдму́ндович Дзержи́нский; 11 September [O.S. 30 August] 1877 – 20 July 1926), nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet official. He was born into Polish nobility. From 1917 until his death in 1926 Dzerzhinsky was the leader of the first two Soviet state-security organizations, which are the Cheka and the OGPU, which were establishing a secret police for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime. He was one of the architects of the Red Terror and Decossackization.