Here is a video from the Mongolian town of Choyr, with a population around 10,000. This video is from a small park in town that pays tribute to VVT Ertvuntz, Mongolia’s first cosmonaut.
I became a bit upset with a Belgian guy (who lived in Sweden) after our stopover in Choyr. After not taking kindly to my U.S. Nationality (which I found abnormally close-minded for a European), he thought it was funny to make a joke comparing Ertvuntz to Laika. If you do not remember, Laika was the Dog the Russians sent in to space (and never to return) back in the late 50’s. He kept making this ‘joke,’ in which he seemed to be saying Mongolians were regressive, backward dogs.
I didn’t laugh.
Speak, Memory 