The ex-communists storm back

摘要

"These are not some monsters who have come to power, but people who speak the same language," says Mongolia's ex-communist leader, Namburiin Enkh-bayar, trying to reassure not just the beaten Democrats but also his country's few foreign investors and the many younger members of his Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (mprp). His message is that the mprp's landslide victory in the general election on July 2nd does not mean the return of a one-party state. Indeed, this vast land-locked country of just 2.5m people may yet make a remarkable transformation from its old hard-line Marxism to a market economy.