Check out the post-plywood chrysalis on the lawn of the Kazakhstan Embassy to the United States and Canda.
While its no Borat, the monument to Kazakh independence dedicated by Nursultan Nazarbayev makes me wonder.
How can Kazakhstan celebrate independence with a hunter on a griffin? Neither founded the modern Kazakh state.
A more appropriate statue would incorporate Stalin, the delineator of the Kazakh republic within the Soviet Union, and Yeltsin or Gorbachev, both of which can claim credit for Soviet devolution.
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
