Preparedness Lessons From Communist Mongolia – Part 1

Preparedness Lessons From Communist Mongolia – Part 1

by G.K., Survival Blog: We lived in Mongolia in the early 1990s, for a few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, during a time when the system had officially ended but its habits had not yet loosened their grip on daily life. I was in my early thirties, married, with two young daughters, […]

Preparedness Lessons From Communist Mongolia, by G.K. Preparedness is not a lifestyle or an identity.

(Continued from Part 1.  This concludes the article.) During winter, even the U.S. Embassy monitored the grid closely. The possibility of a complete system failure was taken seriously enough that commercial flights were placed on twenty-four-hour standby for potential evacuation of official personnel. We were nongovernmental residents. Those plans did not include us. Our planning had to be personal. Cold changed how time felt. Days stretched and…