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      Most visitors today come either for the shamanistic stone cairn behind the memorial (shown in a few photos above, covered in goats helping themselves to food offerings) or for the views of Ulanbaatar. Well, the view is nice . . .
    3. Ed_Haynes
      And the central eternal flame recepticle, like most of the remainder of the monument, has fallen victim to the bane of monuments in the contemportary age, grafitti.
    4. Ed_Haynes
      The site used to be well visited and was a mandatory stop for the Young Pioneers on holidays. Today, it is fairly unvisited and the central eternal flame turned out not to be eternal.
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      Inside the surrounding ring, some nice socialist realist murals.
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      And . . . .
    11. Ed_Haynes
      The outside ring shows some image familiar to Folks Like Us.
    12. Ed_Haynes
      The soldier.
    13. Ed_Haynes
      A few more from yesterday. The Zaisan Memorial, a general memorial to Mongolian and Soviet war dead.
    14. Ed_Haynes
      More to come tomorrow.
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      And the hilt of the Choibalsan-special sword.
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      OK, a couple more before I collapse of jet-lag . . . Still at the historcal museum, some clothing. Choibalsan's overcoat in the center. While it LOOKS like what we see on Battushig's p. 20, it shows no signs of having had any awards (no holes, punctures, etc.).
    17. Ed_Haynes
      A few more badges.
    18. Ed_Haynes
      Some badges.
    19. Ed_Haynes
      More early (ish) orders.
    20. Ed_Haynes
      A nice display of two of the "EARLIES".
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      Said to be Tsedendorj's own Order of Literacy (not "Literary") Merit Order (not "Medal").
    22. Ed_Haynes
      Said (?) to be Sukhbaatar's very own personal Red Banner.
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      Other exterior exhibits were "gone". You may use your imagination? Next: Some "heavy medals" at the Mongolian Museum of History. (Had been there before -- with Jan -- but neglected to pay the high and silly camera fee. Went back, paid it, and again passed quickly by the pre-revolutionary stuff to get to the core items.) Don't think IDs are needed?
    24. Ed_Haynes
      A bit more.
    25. Ed_Haynes
      A closeup for those of you into heavy metal.
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