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I am not an expert but Mongolia was under heavy Soviet influence so they adopted Cyrillic alphabet

After USSR dissolution there's an impulse to return to the traditional vertical script which is a bit impractical because compared to say Han it's not possible to write it horizontally.

Wiki can tell it better than me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_Cyrillic_alphabet

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USSR !== Russian Empire.

Anyway...

Vertical writings are fading out not because someone's political will, but because of their impracticability in modern era.

First commercial typewriter appeared in US in 1874 and it effectively set the end for any non-LTR writing system.

In that respect, can we attach USA to that imperial club that killed TTB writing systems?

USSR is Russia's most successful imperial project. Let's not pretend it was Estonians and Tajiks who ran the business.

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