I was recently in Mongolia, and one of the more memorable sights (in a country packed to the brim with them) awaited me next to the station building in the godf

I was recently in Mongolia, and one of the more memorable sights (in a country packed to the brim with them) awaited me next to the station building in the godforsaken town of Choir, a heat-blasted former Soviet military base in the middle of the Gobi Desert. The scenery all around was rocky desert, battered commieblock apartments and barbed wire... and a solitary silver Socialist Realist statue of Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa, the first & only Mongolian in space, proudly springing off into the skies. https://driftingclouds.net/2018/07/07/from-siberia-to-tibet-ulaanbaatar-gorkhi-terelj-and-the-gobi-desert/ https://driftingclouds.net/2018/07/07/from-siberia-to-tibet-... (photo towards the end) Mongolia, too, seems very much like a country trying to forget its long Socialist era, and there were no statues of the guy to be seen in the bright lights of Ulaanbaatar.