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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
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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...