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<text id=92TT1595>
<title>
July 13, 1992: Herd About Mongolia?
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
July 13, 1992 Inside the World's Last Eden
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 17
WORLD
Herd About Mongolia?
</hdr><body>
<p>The communists win in a landslide as nomadic democrats are cowed
</p>
<p> Marxism is dead. Communists are history. Right? Not in
Mongolia, as it turns out. The Mongolian People's Revolutionary
Party, which ruled the country for decades in lockstep with
Moscow, won 70 of the 76 seats in the parliament, the Great
People's Hural. Though 43% of the votes went to noncommunist
candidates, a coalition of the three main opposition parties
managed to take only four seats, since each contest was decided
by simple majority.
</p>
<p> Democratic reforms in Mongolia were actually begun two
years ago. As aid and supervision from Moscow faded away, so did
central economic planning, which gave way to private markets.
Mongolian citizens, mainly nomadic herdsmen, tended to blame the
democrats for the economic disruptions that followed: rising
prices and unemployment, shortages, even of basics, and food
rationing.
</p>
<p> The communists are taking their triumph soberly, for now
they must deal with the economic mess. "There is no reason to
be happy," said a senior party official in Ulan Bator. "This
result gives us a lot of responsibility." Though the communists
have also pledged to continue with reforms, they may read the
election results as an instruction from the voters to make
changes slowly.
</p>
</body></article>
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