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Re:The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and challenge... by anovikov on Saturday May 08, 2021 @04:12AM (#27085014)
Lies. They got passports in 1974 only. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1147485 (that pertains only to Kolkhoz workers. Sovkhoz workers were free and had passports from the very beginning, but there were many times fewer of them).
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Re:The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and challenge... by simonh on Saturday May 08, 2021 @06:03AM (#27085603)
A statement can be inaccurate or incomplete without being a lie.
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Re:The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and challenge... by anovikov on Saturday May 08, 2021 @06:17AM (#27085693)
lol it was a joke!

I mean, "good old" Soviet Union was a prison for all of it's population throughout it's existence, but it was also a prison within a prison for 37% of it's population till as late as 1974. Human existence there could hardly be called a modern life at any point of it.

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Re:The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and challenge... by simonh on Saturday May 08, 2021 @06:47AM (#27085869)
My apologies then, of course. I have seen bald accusations much like that here that were clearly serious so I'm somewhat sensitive to it.
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