A mass grave yard was discovered last August, during the construction works in Ulaanbaatar city's suburb. The police collected into sacks the human skulls, each with an accurate round hole in the back, and took them to expertise. The remaning bones were put back. But even without expertise it was clear that these are the remains of victims of 30s mass executions. 63 years ago, another group of Russian commisars came to Mongolua. Though they were frequent guests, this time their arrival meant bad news. Buddhist monasteries were abandoned as Communists arrested all high priests and forced out ordinary monks. "The Mongolian nation has no specific goal or defined road to pursue. It just follows the instructions signed by Stalin," wrote then prime minister P.Genden in 1933, already arrested and kept in a special prison in
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