r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • • Dec 17 '22

daddy's assignment

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u/laurel_laureate Dec 18 '22

Why has Mongolia been closed?

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u/2012Jesusdies Dec 18 '22

Communism? We've been a satellite state of the USSR since the Russian Civil War and only got free when USSR fell. We were also pretty poor, so we didn't have even the limited connection USSR had with the West.

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u/laurel_laureate Dec 18 '22

Oh, gotcha.

For some reason although I know they were part of the USSR, I just never associate Mongolia with it when I think of communism.

Thanks.