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Can it be that the death of communism has only been exaggerated? Or only in the mind of Chinese sculptor Wang Wenhai? He has worked tirelessly for three decades to glorify the name of Mao Tse Tung and now proposes to carve 25,000 tiny sculptures of the man whose Communist Party seized control of the Soviet Union in 1949. Craig Simons, writing inThe New York Times, traces the long, if now lonely, quest of Wang Wenhai.
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