MOSCOW: The spies who came in from the cold Now that Russia has an ex-KGB boss as President, Jeremy Atiyah visits the Lubyanka while it's still a museum

From: The Independent - London | Date: June 11, 2000| Author: Jeremy Atiyah | Copyright information

If, 30 years from now, my grandchildren ask me to tell them stories of the KGB, I know where I would like to take them in Moscow. South across the bridge by Gorky Park, behind the arts centre Tsentralny Dom Khudozhnikov, I'll show them a bizarre little park known as the Graveyard of Fallen Monuments. There, in wintry sunshine, they will see statues in dark metal of men with arms like machines and heads like anvils. A Communist theme park for children? There is old Uncle Joe in pink granite wi...