Polish point of view

STALIN has conceded his position in front of the National Library and the KGB no longer segregates Mongolians and foreigners. Returning to Mongolia for an Open Society Forum, Andrzej Krajowski discovered a very different country to the one he visited three decades ago as a young Polish journalist.

Sent to Mongolia in 1978 to cover a Russian geological expedition for Polish newspaper Ekspres Wieczorny, Andrzej was already well versed in the peculiarities of Communism. The former Director of the Press Freedom Monitoring Centre recalled, "I was on my way to Ulaan Baatar the day the Polish Pope was elected. I spent the night in Moscow and remember reading Pravda. The international news was on page 5 and ran, in order of importance:

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