Восток - дело тонкое*

This just goes to show that (to paraphrase Skynyrd) you can take the boy out of Russia, but you'll never take the Russia out' the boy. Rather than buying a porcelain Mao on Hong Kong's Hollywood Road, I found this overpriced (HK$300, bargained down from a truly outrageous HK$850) and rather anatomically incorrect porcelain Stalin (or, as some here who've seen him have dubbed him, "red-headed Mao with a moustache") in a somewhat more out-of-the-way tchotchke shop. I know that Soviet-sculpture-obsessed Rubashov will appreciate this.

Chinese Stalin - acquired in Hong Kong, July 2007.

*The origin of this phrase is this canonical movie, which has provided the title for at least one excellent blog.