11.09.2023, Moscow.
The threat to Russia from the northwest remains, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin said on September 11 during the unveiling of a monument to Dzerzhinsky in front of the agency’s headquarters.
Journalists noted that the monument’s gaze is directed to the northwest, toward Poland and the Baltics, preserving the direction of the gaze of the dismantled Dzerzhinsky monument at Lubyanka. One of the reporters asked if it was symbolic.
Naryshkin replied that it was impossible to change the direction of the gaze of a monument created by a prominent Soviet sculptor. The SVR Director called the threat to Russia and its citizens from the northwest obvious.
A reduced copy of the Dzerzhinsky monument from Lubyanka Square was installed in front of the agency’s headquarters. The original was dismantled on August 23, 1991.
After the events of the so-called “August putsch” in 1991, the protesters wanted to push the monument off the pedestal by their own forces. The Moscow City Council decided to carry out the dismantling with the help of specialists in order to avoid the risk of damaging the subway station’s structures.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
