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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 ...
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.
[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 ]
Stalinism (Russian: сталинизм, stalinizm) is the totalitarian [1] [2] [3] means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1924 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin and in Soviet satellite states between 1944 and 1953.
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 ...
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 ...
Outer Mongolia — officially the Mongolian People's Republic — was ruled (1930s to 1952) by the communist government of Khorloogiin Choibalsan during the period of World War II and had close links with the Soviet Union. Most countries regarded Mongolia, with its fewer than a million inhabitants, [1] as a breakaway province of the Republic of ...