ocr: Westerners. used to be able to claim with justifaction "when Moscow sneezesulan Bator wipes its nose, and Mongolia did in/fact have the annoying habit ofaligning itself overenthuslastically with its Soviet big brother TO the point that the main square in the capitalis a.small scale reproduction of Red Squarel Right down to Lenin's tomb! Such devotion would be mildly amusing had it not entailed the massacre, in 1930, of 50,000 Lamas and the destructioncor miltions of books. Today the Mongolians accuse the Soviets of having cruelly cut them off from allsecular knowledge. - - - - - - - à -
