Kang Sheng, born Zhang Zongke, was a Chinese Communist Party official, politician and calligrapher best known for having overseen the work of the CCP's internal security and intelligence apparatus dur
Kang Seng in Yan'an
Apart from his political views, Kang Sheng was highly praised for his artistic cultivation, especially his calligraphy
Kang with Mao in Yan'an, 1945
Kang (top right) during the Cultural Revolution, with Jiang Qing and Zhou Enlai
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed Iron Felix, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first three Soviet secret police organ
Kang Sheng
…CCP and the Central Committee formally rescinded Marshal Ye Jianying's eulogy. In his 1978 speech, Hu Yaobang labeled him as the Chinese equivalent of Dzerzhinsky or Beria, an opinion "shared by a majority of informed Chinese." Most official published material characterizes him as part of "Lin Biao and Jiang Qing…
Portrait by Moisey Nappelbaum [ru], 1919
Dzerzhinsky (left) with his fiancée Julia Goldman and her brother Mikhail Liber, 1904
Dzerzhinsky pictured with wife Sofia and son Janek in Lugano (Switzerland), October 1918
Dzerzhinsky at Oryol Prison, 1914