CULTURAS IN VITRO
Collecting Despots, Assassins and Such: Where else could Romania's former first couple, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, mingle with the founder of the Soviet secret police, Feliks Dzerzhinsky, and Gavrilo Princip, the Serbian assassin who helped set in motion World War I? Only in Texas. [...]
Nearly 20 statues of leaders and heroes of authoritarian regimes occupy the rolling private garden of Harlan R. Crow, a Dallas real estate investor. Heavyweights like Stalin, Mao and Lenin stand among lesser-knowns like Klement Gottwald, the first Communist president of Czechoslovakia.