Genghis Khan Rules Mongolia Again, in a P.R. Campaign

[bourbon]

Tsonjin Boldog Journal: Genghis Khan Rules Mongolia Again, in a P.R. Campaign (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/world/asia/03genghis.html), by Dan Levin. The New York Times, August 2, 2009.

TSONJIN BOLDOG, Mongolia — Jesus Christ looms over Rio de Janeiro, a quartet of American presidents gazes from the face of Mount Rushmore and Lenin keeps watch over St. Petersburg. But if there were a global contest to honor larger-than-life men on a colossal scale, Mongolia might just vanquish them all — again.

Genghis Khan, the legendary horseman who conquered half the known world in the 13th century, has returned to the steppes of Mongolia, and this time he charges admission.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/08/03/world/03genghis.xlarge1.jpg

This is my Graceland.

[goesh]

That's very unique, glad you posted that - wonder what admission would be - some grain and mare's milk? (couldn't resist that)

[davidbfpo]

When travelling in Western Ukraine, near Lvov, we came across a huge steel statue overhanging a minor road; it was a memorial to the Red Army invading / defending the area in the Russo-Polish War (1921?) and was errected in Stalin's time. Apparently there was a similar statue of a horse-drawn machine gun team near Kiev.

I'd say the ghost of Stalin and Soviet influence lives on in Mongolia.

davidbfpo

[bourbon]

I'd say the ghost of Stalin and Soviet influence lives on in Mongolia.
Genghis Khan is the most slandered and misunderstood figure in history; the effect that he and the Mongol Empire had on the world was epic. For his time, he was a liberal in the classical sense of the word.