Peter and Paul are both posthumously recognized saints of the Catholic Church, the twelve disciples of Jesus, who are supposed to represent mercy and charity, but in this fortress prison named after the two saints, there is nothing to be seen about mercy. At least Li Xiaofeng didn't see anything that could make him feel relieved along the way.

The prisons in the Peter and Paul Fortress are roughly divided into three parts in the order in which they were built - the Zotov Fortress Prison, the "Secret Prison Building" and the Trubetskoy Fortress Prison. The Zotov Fortress in the northwestern corner of the fortress was named by Peter I in honor of his teacher, Nikita Moiseevich Zotov, secretary of the noble Duma, the head of the Imperial Council, although ironically, the first cells in the fortress were built here shortly after the completion of the fortress.

The walls of the cells were surrounded by fortress walls close to the Neva water, which not only made escape impossible, but also cold. The cells had an arched roof, small windows covered with iron mesh covered with white paint, and heavy wooden doors covered with thick iron sheets were installed at the only exit.

According to the famous Decembrists, Alexander Murphy, a member of the Northern Society. In his memoirs, Muravyov recorded what it was like to be held here: "The iron bed of the cell was covered with dirty, shiny rags, and the walls were hung with shackles weighing 23 Russian pounds (about 9.24 kilograms) to punish prisoners...... The bed surface is paved with two narrow iron plates, which are not only of different thicknesses, but also have a large gap in the middle; The bedding and pillows were coarse sacks stuffed with straw, there were no chairs in the room, and small tables were fixed to the walls. In the corner of the wall is a toilet with an unpleasant smell. The interior space is extremely small, 6 steps long and 4 steps wide...... The common features of these cells are dim, cramped, damp and cold, with a suffocating smell from the damp and moldy walls, and a small, dim space that makes it impossible to move one's limbs and distinguish the conditions in the room.

Of course, Li Xiaofeng was lucky not to go to the Zotov Fortress Prison, but to go to the new Trubetskoy Prison in the southwest of the fortress with the approval of Tsar Alexander II. Not to mention that he is not qualified to enter the Zotov prison, but it is already full, and the Alexei Triangle Fortress in the fortress, called the "secret prison", was demolished in 1895, and now only the Trubetskoy Fortress prison can accommodate him.

It is a two-storey pentagonal building, and although the height of the entire building is slightly higher than the fortress wall, the eerie prison is not visible from the outside of the fortress due to the distance of 4.5 meters from the wall.

Li Xiaofeng was caught between two gendarmes and escorted into the city, which was occupied by the "Popular People's Party" Vera Brown. Nikolaevna. Figuerner's prison called the "coffin". To tell the truth, the moment he walked into this prison, Li Xiaofeng couldn't help but shudder, what kind of building is this - dark and damp, the ground and walls seem to have just been splashed with water, and the water droplets the size of soybeans reflect the dim light, like the eyes of the evil ghosts in the Nine Shadows.

There was no sound in the entire prison, and the lasting silence seemed to exist only in the graveyard. Along the way, the only sound Li Xiaofeng could hear was that when the gendarmes patrolled lightly in the corridor, the spurs on his feet and the key hanging from his waist would inadvertently make a slight metal impact, but this movement was a great comfort to him.

Occasionally, the sound of a gendarme banging on the door was heard, but it was immediately drowned out by the silence around them. The gendarmes patrolling the corridors would often stop in front of the cell door, put their ears to the door and eavesdrop on the movements, or observe the prisoner's movements through the "Judas Crack" on the door, and see the prisoner walking briskly from one corner of the cell to the other, like a bird in a cage jumping up and down, like a trapped animal in a cage wandering anxiously. …,

"Room 59!" After a long silence, the guards escorting Li Xiaofeng finally spoke for the first time.

Immediately, his companion untied a large string of heavy keys from the belt, searched carefully for a while in the dim light before finding the desired piece, inserted it into the keyhole and twisted it gently, and with a creak, the heavy iron door was pulled open. Li Xiaofeng's cold hairs all over his body stood up, this state was only available when he played "Resident Evil", but the fear at that time was not as strong and real as it is now.

Li Xiaofeng was still stunned, but the gendarmes behind him were already very impatient, and with a hard push, he stumbled and fell into this small tomb. Then there was a bang, and the heavy iron door slammed shut, and as the footsteps of the gendarmes faded away, everything fell into a deathly silence again.

After a long time, Li Xiaofeng slowly stood up and looked at the small room, the ceiling in the cell was arched, the concrete floor, the windows were close to the ceiling, and only faint sunlight could shine in through the windows. The dimly lit cell was furnished with a wooden table and stools, and an iron bed and bedding covered with two iron plates. On either side of the cell door are washbasins and toilets. On the walls of the bubble water, a small, dim incandescent lamp barely visible emits a pitiful light.

"Little one!" When Li Xiaofeng was stunned, a hoarse voice like sandpaper rubbing sounded, which immediately startled him.

Li Xiaofeng narrowed his eyes, and with the help of that little bit of light, he saw a pitch-black shadow lying on the double-layered iron bed, this person seemed to be completely engulfed in darkness, if he hadn't suddenly spoken, he really didn't find that there was a living person in this tomb.

Although he is a living person, his appearance is similar to that of a zombie, his face is gray, his eye sockets are deep, and his dull skin is covered with blue-black spots.

This face seems to have been seen somewhere, Li Xiaofeng couldn't help but think. Although he was sure that in his previous life, except for a few foreign teachers who came to pan for gold, he had never dealt with other foreigners at all, and most of those guys who came to pan for gold were black and millet millet. Well, although the face of the person in front of him is dark, no matter how you look at it, he is a white man.

He was sure he didn't know him, but the familiarity wasn't fake. Li Xiaofeng couldn't help but suspect that the owner of his body was familiar with this person now, but immediately a flash of inspiration in his mind made him dispel this thought. It was definitely himself who knew this cool man, because he remembered a well-known name - Jean. Renault.

That's right, it's the guy who played "This Killer Is Not Too Cold"!

Okay, I'm afraid some people will say that Li Xiaofeng is crazy, or his brain is cramping, how can it be that he is locked up in this cell. Renault! Even if he wants to go to prison, Mr. Actor will only stay in a big prison in France, how can he be thrown into the black prison of authoritarian Russia?

Of course, Li Xiaofeng also knew that the person in front of him could never be an actor, let alone Jean. Renault. Although they are very similar, if the chin of the person in front of you is a little fuller, it will be even more similar. Of course, having a star face may be more useful in the future life, at least you can go on variety shows and catwalks, and if you do well, you may be much more comfortable than ordinary people in this life. But all this is completely meaningless to the owner of this star face in front of him, maybe his fame in later generations did not let . Renault is big, but the traces left in history are even more obvious! Of course, the condition for all this to be established is that Li Xiaofeng did not recognize the wrong person's words.

"Felix. Edmondovich. Dzerzhinsky. The star face stretched out his right hand. …,

Li Xiaofeng swallowed and foamed, he could now be sure that he had indeed not recognized the wrong person, and the one in front of him was the one he had heard of.

Yes, this one is Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the famous KGB, the proletarian revolutionary of the Soviet Union and the master of the Red Terror, one of the three major spy agencies of later generations. Of course, he didn't have any KGB at that time, and even the GPU didn't exist, and the organization with the sword and shield pattern he led at that time was called the All-Russian Committee for the Suppression of Rebellion, or Cheka for short.

Well, now it seems that whether it is the Cheka, the GPU or the KGB, no matter how the name changes, the reputation of this organization is bad, just like the Jinyiwei and Dongchang in the Ming Dynasty. Presumably due to the strict control of the population in the country, or the relocation of arrested losers in the party struggle to remote areas; either exile dissidents from the country or detain them in special psychiatric hospitals; Ordinary people are tortured to death in prisons and labor camps like political prisoners.

It is more likely that the Great Purge of the Stalin period brought great trauma to the Soviet Union, the predecessor of the KGB during the Great Purge, the General State Security Bureau, arrested and killed a large number of Soviet elite talents, which caused the Soviet Union to encounter a major setback in the early stage of World War II, caused a major regression in the development of the Soviet Union, and caused suffering to countless families. In fact, it is precisely because of Lavrenti. Pavlovich. Beria was shot and accused of being a traitor, and the General Directorate of State Security changed its name to the KGB as a break with the past.

But the Cheka, in the early years of the Soviet state, contributed indelible merit to the consolidation of Soviet power and state building. The Cheka swept away the social evils such as gangsters, hooligans, and prostitutes that were rife in the White Russian period, and suppressed many armed rebellions in the cities. The Cheka's de facto subordinate body, the State General Directorate of Political Security, guarded the personal safety of Soviet leaders, including Lenin.

Even this purely espionage terrorist agency can do economic and charitable work, including repairing war-damaged railway lines, improving the lives of workers in poor cities, setting up orphan relief agencies, and helping orphans caused by war and famine.

And these acts of goodwill can be seen in Dzerzhinsky's successive or concurrent positions: NKVD (the People's Commissar is a minister, not a commissary, a solid ministerial-level cadre), the head of logistics of the South-Western Front, the chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee Committee for the Improvement of Children's Lives, the chairman of the Committee for the Improvement of the Lives of Moscow Workers, the People's Commissar for Communications, the chairman of the All-Russian Committee for the Suppression of Counter-Terrorism, the chairman of the Directorate of the State Political Security Main Directorate of the People's Commissars of the USSR, the chairman of the Supreme National Economic Council of the USSR, Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR.

Of course, from the day the Cheka was born, the coat of arms was a sword and a shield. The internal affairs troops under Dzerzhinsky's control naturally could not be without bloodshed on their hands. In fact, the Cheka was founded with Dzerzhinsky's words: "Do not think that I will seek a just way of revolution." We don't need justice now, it's a face-to-face war, a war to the death. I propose and request the establishment of a body for a revolutionary reckoning with the counter-revolution. As Dzerzhinsky famously said, "We stand for self-organized terrorism – let this be made clear." ”

What a confession, what a decisiveness, that it is rare for a successor or even the entire world to do similar work with such courage, even the devilish Gestapo leader Heinrich. Ruitbyrd. Himmler did not dare to say such a thing.

The Cheka, as Dzerzhinsky put it, "carries out a politics of terror, arrests and exterminates class enemies, annihilates their pre-revolutionary roles, annihilates their class alliances, destroys their bodies and spirits." ”

But in fact, Dzerzhinsky himself was not a dictator, let alone cruel and murderous. He was a man of strong faith, a man of self-control, kindness and kindness. His nickname, "Felix of Steel", is the best illustration of this, and many memoirs of the October Revolution say of Dzerzhinsky: "He lived with only three things: work, bread and water." ”…,

Dzerzhinsky never watched a play or a movie, he didn't even have his own home, only an office. Dzerzhinsky made the deepest impression on many people was: "Those deep-set eyes shone with the cold light of fanatical faith." He never blinked, as if his eyelids were paralyzed. ”

Moreover, Dzerzhinsky was different from his successors, he was never the eagle dog of the supreme power, and the Cheka he led was an independent, non-personal organization that fought only for communist ideals.

For Dzerzhinsky, even his enemies, one cannot fail to recognize him as a real red sword of punishment, loyal to communist ideals, defending the people and striking at the enemy. In fact, Lenin did not like him, and Stalin did not like him, but neither could but respect him. His position was no lower than Lenin's, and when the Bolsheviks elected members of the Central Committee, Trotsky, the de facto leader of the October Revolution and the founder of the Red Army, received the third number of votes, and Lenin, the founder of Soviet power, received the second most votes, and Dzerzhinsky won the first vote. After the death or exile of these three men, there was no such person among the Soviet leaders as they were, who worked tirelessly and were extremely loyal to the revolutionary cause, but more conspirators and rotten bureaucrats like Stalin.

Of course, Dzerzhinsky was not a saint, although many later KGB staff worshipped him as a saint. He also made mistakes and had problems, and in the contest between Stalin and Trotsky, he chose the former. Of course, this does not mean that he completely agrees with what Stalin did.

In fact, before Stalin promoted the cult of personality and carried out the reign of terrorism, Dzerzhinsky was most feared. I don't know if it was Stalin's luck or Dzerzhinsky's luck, before the contradictions were about to erupt, Dzerzhinsky died of exhaustion in office at the age of 49. Three hours before his death, Dzerzhinsky, in his speech to the Central Committee and the Central Supervisory Commission, pointed out the problems of Stalin's coming to power: "I am terrified when I see the institutions of our Party, at the sight of our organizational system, at the sight of our incredible bureaucracy, our sluggish efficiency, and our utter state of chaos. ”

Dzerzhinsky, who seemed to have sensed something, also said his beliefs and the source of his strength at the end of his life: "Do you know what my strength is? That is, I never care about myself, I believe that what I am doing is right, and I am willing to dedicate my life to my cause. That's why all of you trust me and love me. I've never been against sanity, but as long as there's chaos, I'm going to fight them with all my might. ”

For such a person, to be honest, it is difficult to describe it in terms of good or bad people in the general sense. He came from an aristocratic family but devoted himself to the proletarian revolution; He pursued a policy of terror and bloody blows against the enemies of the revolution, but he never won a single privilege for himself. He was unrelenting and merciless to his enemies, but the surging feelings in his letters to his relatives and friends were vividly displayed on paper. At first glance, he seems to be cold, but he is an out-and-out idealist...... Well, Dzerzhinsky is a collection of contradictions, but in any case he is a respectable person.

At least Li Xiaofeng respects this man who looks like Jean. Renault's ruthless man. He was a little nervous and flustered, and quickly grabbed the other party's palm, and stammered, "Li ...... No...... Andre. Petrovich. Sbelowsky. ”

This name is not made up by Li Xiaofeng, but the subconscious reaction of his body, yes! Originally, the owner of this body was indeed called by this name.

"Hello, Andrey. Comrade Petrovich, although somewhat ironic, I would like to say that it is a pleasure to see you here. Dzerzhinsky's lips showed a strange smile.

Li Xiaofeng's head was a little dizzy, so he could only hold Dzerzhinsky's right hand tightly and replied: "Xie Lu Xie, it's also a pleasure to meet you, Felix. Comrade Edmundovich. ”

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