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Article: House of chimeras: can Ukraine emerge from the rubble?
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- National Review
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- April 4, 1994
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A CROSS the street from the cavernous offices of Ukraine's President Leonid Kravchuk stands a quaint turn-of-the-century building bearing the likenesses of beasts and fantastic creatures. It is known locally as the House of Chimeras.
Kravchuk's sprawling headquarters, once home to the Ukrainian Communist Party's Central Committee, is another House of Chimeras. Inside, you can find political hybrids no less fantastic than the mythical Chimera--a creature with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the taft of a dragon. Here are dissident nationalists who have abandoned fierce anti-Communism to loyally serve the president, who was chief ideologist of ...