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The Stalinist repressions in Mongolia (Mongolian: Их Хэлмэгдүүлэлт, romanized: Ikh Khelmegdüülelt, lit. 'Great Repression') was an 18-month period of heightened political violence and persecution in the Mongolian People's Republic between 1937 and 1939. [ 1 ]
Ties between Stalin and Genden began to fray as early as 1934 when, at a meeting with Genden in Moscow, Stalin urged him to destroy Mongolia's Buddhist clergies. He told the Mongolian leader to exterminate more than 100,000 of his nation's lamas, [8] whom Stalin called "the enemies within". Genden, a staunch Buddhist, was once quoted as saying ...
Sharing a yurt with Bodoo was Khorloogiin Choibalsan (1895–1953), later to be known as the "Stalin of Mongolia". A certain Mikhail Kucherenko, a typesetter in the Russo-Mongolian printing office and a member of the Bolshevik underground in Urga, occasionally visited Bodoo and Choibalsan; conversations, no doubt, turned on the Russian ...
[182] Stalin had ordered for 100,000 Buddhist lamas in Mongolia to be liquidated but the political leader Peljidiin Genden resisted the order. [ 183 ] [ 184 ] [ 185 ] It is quite possible that Yezhov misled Stalin about the aspects of the purge process. [ 186 ]
Satisfied with his loyalty, Stalin ordered Mongolia's Prime Minister Peljidiin Genden to appoint Choibalsan as deputy prime minister. Genden vigorously objected, but to no avail. As relations between Genden and Stalin soured, Choibalsan's influence with Moscow increased.
Just about four years ago, at the height of COVID, we lost photographer and activist Corky Lee. His work is the subject of a recent book, "Corky Lee's Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic ...
Mao Zedong privately hoped for Outer Mongolia's reintegration with China, and he was rebuffed by Soviet leadership after raising the question in 1949 and again in 1954, the year after Stalin's death. In 1956, after Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin, Chinese leaders attempted to present Mongolia's independence as one of Stalin's mistakes.
With most internal opposition extinguished and the threat of Japanese military expansion rising on Mongolia's eastern borders, Stalin ordered Choibalsan to bring the purges to an end. During a special conference at Interior Ministry on April 20, 1939, both Choibalsan and Luvsansharav faked tears of regret for allowing overly zealous Interior ...