Posted on 11/26/2021 4:05:43 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1937, purged former Mongolia Prime Minister Peljidiin Genden was shot in Moscow.
Genden was in the thick of communist authority in Mongolia, including a forced collectivization that provoked resistance sufficient for Moscow to demand the Mongolians lay off the “leftist deviation.” Eyeballing a likely future conflict with Japan, Russia wanted Mongolia as a buffer zone and couldn’t afford gratuitously upsetting the apple cart.
enden, himself a former leftist deviant, managed an adroit volte-face and got himself named Prime Minister in 1932.
Stalin’s minions would closely meddle in the business of the Mongolian People’s Republic over the 1930s as it rolled out its own eastern policy. Despite the Comintern’s recent turn towards ideological moderation in those precincts, it soon became concerned that Genden was lax in going after the Buddhist element; in fact, he’d openly declared religious toleration in 1932. But this particular enemy Russia could not abide. “The lama regime,” Stalin tut-tutted, “is stronger than the people’s regime.”
Genden had the ill-chosen moxie to push back against Stalin. On one state visit to Moscow, he got liquored up and bellowed,
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Khorloogiin Choibalsan, “the Stalin of Mongolia” would kill around 30,000 Mongols after ousting Genden in 1936.
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