Autre anecdote, qui ne contredit pas la version précédente :
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"Felix Dzerzhinsky, former aspiring Catholic priest, gained notoriety during the Bim-Bom affair. Bim-Bom was a Moscow circus clown known for his jokes about the prominent figures of the Communist party. In 1918, after Felix Dzerzhinsky settled in the Lubyanka offices of Lloyds of London as the head of the Commission for Combating Counterrevolution and Sabotage (Cheka), he attempted to arrest Bim-Bom during his circus performance. The audience thought that this was a part of the Bim-Bom's act. Bim-Bom fled and Felix Dzerzhinsky was ridiculed as a clown chasing a clown. The Bom-Bom fiasco did not discourage the failed cleric, but on the contrary, steeled his resolve. He worked day and night, rarely leaving his Lubyanka office, and at the end of his first year as the head of Cheka he became known as the 'Iron Felix' and Lubyanka became the Moscow's feared prison."
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Je résume : Dzerjinsky, ancien séminariste, chef de la Tchéka, acquit une notoriété à l'occasion de l'affaire Bim-Bom, un clown de cirque connu pour ses plaisanteries sur les figures éminentes du PC. En 1918 (...) Djerzinsky se ridiculisa en tentant d'arreter Bim-Bom pendant sa représentation. Les spectateurs crurent qu'ils s'agissait d'un gag et que Djerzinsky était un autre clown. Ce fiasco ne découragea pas l'ancien séminatiste etc"
Pris sur un site d'histoire dont je n'ai compris ni les positions politiques ni les objectifs. Quoi qu'il en soit, ici le clown est unique et on ne dit pas que Djezinsky lui a tiré dessus.
Nous pouvons en tirer une première conclusion : la vie des camarades clowns était agitée à Moscou en 1918.