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perhaps a little slow to reach Mongolia yet , when the concepts of openness and transparency for government departments reached Ulaanbaatar they did so with force . Sükhbaatar Square became the location of many protests , sit ins , and hunger strikes . The massive square became a focal point of change eventually leading to the communist government stepping down and Mongolia taking steps towards democracy . Since that time in the early 1990s Ulaanbaatar has seen further growth quickly becoming a city of over a million inhabitants , the nomadic people of the steppe began moving to more
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