One Heck Of A Ride

170 depended upon Soviet economic aid, and much of its food, fuel and manufactured items was imported from the communist bloc. Two years after our hunt, as the money and other aid dried up as the Soviet Union fell apart, inflation hit and food and gasoline were rationed. The country’s first multi-party elections in 1990 eventually led to the end of nearly seventy years of communist rule. Although trophy hunting in Mongolia continued all through this peaceful change in politics, some returning hunters in the early 1990s reported that gasoline shortages had forced their guides to siphon fuel from school buses so they could transport clients to hunting areas. Asia