Today is Proclamation Day in Mongolia, commemorating the 1924 proclamation of the Mongolian People’s Republic, which made Mongolia the world’s second communist nation. Why this is still celebrated in post-communist Mongolia is beyond me, but it’s a public holiday nevertheless (or so says the yurt person), and deserves a note in my blog.
Coincidentally, the Mongolian Prime Minister is in Seoul for a visit, and the Korea Times managed to capture the moment with this shot below:
In case you were wondering, the man with no neck and the unusually large cranium is Prime Minister Nambaryn Enkhbayar, looking ever like the Commie Party boss he is. The man to the right, of course, is our Dufus-in-Chief. Enkhbayar is in town for three days to promote bilateral ties, which roughly translated means “begging Noh not to expel every single illegal Mongolian immigrant in Korea.”
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Why this is still celebrated in post-communist Mongolia is beyond me
This gave the Soviet Union an ideological basis for preventing a Chinese attempt at reuniting Mongolia with the motherland.
The translator behind the Mongolian looks drunk off his rocker. And the Mongolian looks like somebody from “The Sopranos.”