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Freedom Square in Kharkiv is the 8th largest city-centre square in Europe. Upon the Soviet takeover the square was named Maidan Dzerzhynskoho in 1926 after Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Bolshevik secret police (the Cheka, precursor to the KGB). It is depicted on maps of Kharkiv of 1938.nAfter the independence of Ukraine it was renamed Freedom Square. During the brief German occupation the name of the square changed twice: in 1942 the square was named German Army Square, and in 1943 Leibstandarte SS Square.

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