I greatly admire the Mongolian people. I was a volunteer over there when they were privatizing agriculture. Was not a smooth process but they were learning. Remember that Mongolia was the second country to go communist after Russia so no one living had experienced capitalism unlike Poland which had a memory of opportunity.
One of the things I learned was that entrepreneurship can exist anywhere, even under communism. One individual was setting up a rural credit union in his small town. I asked him where he learned how to do it. He said he had already done it under communism and now had to do it again. But it did appear agriculture and rural towns were given a little more latitude than other business were.
The communists also did immeasurable damage-most of it permanent-to ancient relics/possible archaeological sights and numerous houses of worship.
The Buddhists who had practiced their religion for centuries upon centuries in relative peace and tranquility, were suddenly brutally repressed, denied access, tortured and many ultimately were murdered by Mongolia's despotic, communist regime.
There is some great information about these massacres-many of which occurred in the early years of their reign, during the 20s and 30s-in the Black Book of Communism.
This book is a must read for anyone who is interested in knowing the true extent of communist depredations throughout the history of the 20th Century.