What was the nationality of Felix Dzerzhinsky's family?
Russian
Polish
Lithuanian
Belarusian
Answer
Polish was the nationality of Felix Dzerzhinsky's family. Dzerzhinsky was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and the founder of the Soviet secret police, the Cheka. He was born into a Polish noble family in the Russian Empire, where his father served as a school principal and his mother was a pianist.
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