A plan to rid Ulaanbaatar of ger districts collapsed. The writer believes the project could have been fully carried out. In the mid-1960s, the writer says, the state was strong and citizens were obedient and conscientious; the party-government would do what it planned, and the Soviet Union would care about its image as a great power. If the project had succeeded, the capital would have become a modern, tidy city without ger districts.