It's the small things, innit?
Moscow Times: Men [sic] trying to bring down the statue of [KGB founder] Felix Dzerzhinsky on Aug. 22, 1991. The sign "Khunte Khana" says "The junta is finished."
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9/11/2004, BBC, "Russia KGB founder honoured": A new statue of the founder of what became the KGB, Felix Dzerzhinsky, has been unveiled in a small town outside Moscow.
The monument was commissioned by the town authorities.
Some believe the event is part of the gradual rehabilitation of the once feared Russian secret service under President Vladimir Putin, himself a former officer of the KGB...
No need for airbrushes this time around, they've got Photoshop and the GIMP and they no doubt will use them to full effect.
Posted to Miscellania at September 13, 2004 10:17 PM
