Mongolian future was lost for 550 years... Since decline of the Yuan Dynasty when Togoon Tumur was thrown out of Beijing (Baidu) until declaration of independence in 1911. He is often blamed by historians for loosing control to the Ming Dynasty, however "bough was broken long before the cradle fell". Abandoning the then-flourishing city of Kharkhorin and transferring capital of Mongolia to Beijing was the ''beginning of the end'' followed by numerous of internal conflicts. Before that time Kharkhorin was one of the major cities in Central Asia, the religious freedom allowed to establish fair competition and temples represented different religions were built and peacefully co-existed. Architects and engineers from all around the world established magnificent city full of beautiful architecture, glass, iron, gold, copper processing factories, kilns to produce ceramic beautiful goods etc. The famous Silver Tree Fountain of Kharkhorin was built by a French Architect... Over 800 years ago, Khan's winter palace had a floor heating system! Pax Mongolica - a golden era for traders and travelers around the world. Hundreds of caravans safely traveled and traded for thousands of miles. Mongolians greatly diminished the amount of tribute gatherers of the trade networks thus assured great security for merchants. That's when Marco Polo and Plano Carpini first introduced East to the West, brought noodles from China to Italy which later became spaghetti... (Is it amazing but a very little known fact that Marco Polo served as a governor of the one of the municipal district of Yuan Dynasty, under Khubilai Khan. This was probably first and the only time westerner worked for the government on the land of noways's China...) I believe that Mongolians philosophy of the 12-13 century was to develop a free trade economy, the very similar theory Adam Smith introduced in the 19th century.
However, the end of any great power starts with internal conflicts be it an empire, a country or any modern commercial organization. In the modern times in order to avoid any conflict or disappointments we established regulations that everybody must follow. However we often forget about the most important lesson that history has taught us - being united and having single vision for prosperity of our nations.
1911, 1921, 1945, 1961, 1990 - these are amazing, some of the greatest years of modern history of Mongolia. Proclamation of Independence, Revolution, Mongolian Independence Referendum (electorate voting for independence where 487'409 out of 487'409 voters approved Mongolia's Independence), Becoming member of UN, Peaceful Democratic Revolution of Mongolia and beginning of the free market economy.
Since 1990 we are on the new path, the path of the freedom of choice, the path of building a new future. A man who wins 45 million dollar lottery is only given a freedom of choice, not yet a happiness. It is completely up to him whether to "move up" and become a happy person or "move down" and become a drug and alcohol addict. Become a flourishing economy like Australia or repeat the history of Nauru. Be united and flourish or be swallowed by foreign economies because we couldn't handle our little internal political conflicts. Its your choice, its my choice.
However, the end of any great power starts with internal conflicts be it an empire, a country or any modern commercial organization. In the modern times in order to avoid any conflict or disappointments we established regulations that everybody must follow. However we often forget about the most important lesson that history has taught us - being united and having single vision for prosperity of our nations.
1911, 1921, 1945, 1961, 1990 - these are amazing, some of the greatest years of modern history of Mongolia. Proclamation of Independence, Revolution, Mongolian Independence Referendum (electorate voting for independence where 487'409 out of 487'409 voters approved Mongolia's Independence), Becoming member of UN, Peaceful Democratic Revolution of Mongolia and beginning of the free market economy.
Since 1990 we are on the new path, the path of the freedom of choice, the path of building a new future. A man who wins 45 million dollar lottery is only given a freedom of choice, not yet a happiness. It is completely up to him whether to "move up" and become a happy person or "move down" and become a drug and alcohol addict. Become a flourishing economy like Australia or repeat the history of Nauru. Be united and flourish or be swallowed by foreign economies because we couldn't handle our little internal political conflicts. Its your choice, its my choice.
