Modern view on the tragic fate of the Kazakh people during the political repressions in Mongolia

Abstract

Based on historical materials, the paper explores the most terrible tragedy of the 20th
century for the Kazakh people — the Stalinist repression, when many of our citizens were shot.
The history of Kazakhstan in the Soviet era has many tragic pages. One of them is the problem
of persecution in the former Soviet Union. This historical event did not bypass the Kazakhs of
Mongolia. The internal politicalstruggle, theinfluence of the Comintern, and political repressions
in Mongolia in 1930–1940 had a significant impact on the political development of Mongolia. The
research is devoted to one of the most important areas of Kazakh history abroad - the analysis
of how the Kazakhs of Mongolia, its individual representatives, were persecuted and punished;
the difficult situation of the people during the years of repression, its consequences and the fate
of individual Kazakhs are described. Political repression became a tool in the internal political
struggle against the opposition, strengthening the personal power of Kh. Choibalsan, as well
as settling personal scores in the struggle for power. Particular attention is paid to the political
processes in Mongolia, which received an ambiguous assessment in historiography. The author
identified political ideological sources, and the causes of mass repressions and determined the
tragic fate of individuals, such as intellectual elites, the rich, the national bourgeoisie, lamas, and
mullahs.