What happened to all those statues of deposed communist dictators? They landed in Harlan Crow’s victory garden.
For the briefest of moments, Harlan Crow looks a trifle sheepish. “There is an ex-governor of Texas living nearby who is really conservative. I'm not sure how pleased he'd be if he knew what I was doing back here.”
Here stand the great and the good, the not-so-good and the perfectly chilling. Castro casts a marbled eye over Engels. Engels glances warily over at Mao. Czech dictator Klement Gottwald stands alone in a small grove, the blood-red paint still as fresh on his hands as if daubed on yesterday. Churchill harrumphs silently in another corner of the garden.
An engaging man whose silver hair belies a youthful face, Harlan Crow is the mirror of the large house he inhabits, comfortably furnished without being overly grand. Son of real estate mogul Trammell Crow, he is an ardent collector of sculpture and historical papers.
It was before that Moscow trip in August 1991 that the two men came to an arrangement. “I suggested, ‘How about we bring back some things,’” says Tie. “He said, ‘Let's do it.’ It was a 30-second conversation.” Tie bought Lenin for Harlan that November. But it was not until the following March, with the bullets flying and Georgia near-paralyzed by civil war, that he was able to get him out. It caused quite a stir in Lanchkhuti.
It was a reaction that Sosnowski would come to recognize in the years that followed. He saw it again in the KGB building opposite the Kremlin, when he walked in off the street and offered to buy the bust of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the grim founder of the NKVD , standing in the hall. Dzerzhinsky, too, is now a resident of Dallas. It doesn't seem to have cheered him up any.
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