Category:Lubyanskaya Ploschad

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Lubyanskaya ploschad is famous for the notorious house No. 2, reconstructed by the author of mausoleum A. Shusev, which remembers almost all secret services in Russia. During the last 80 years it has changed name more than 10 times from CheKa to FSB and today the first thing that crosses the mind of any Russian when he hears "Lubyanka" is prison. Here people were brought for interrogations, beaten, tortured and later sent to camps of GULAG (The Central Administrative of the Labour Camps) in Kolyma; millions of prisoners never returned. They were kept in special inner prison of this house and taken for a walk to the roof. As a result a sad joke was born: “What is the highest building in Moscow? – Lubyanka, one can see Kolyma from its roof.”

For a long time the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky (aka The Iron Felix) stood on Lubyanskaya ploschad. In 1991 it was removed to sculpture garden near CDH and joined other statues of not-wanted communistic politicians. Instead of Dzerzhinsky Solovetsky stone was erected on Lubyanskaya ploschad as a monument to all those who suffered from the totalitarian regime.

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