The Stalinist repressions in Mongolia, known in Mongolia as the Great Repression, was an 18-month period of heightened political violence and persecution in the Mongolian People's Republic between 193
Remains of victims found in April 2003
Khorloogiin Choibalsan in the 1930s
Deputy NKVD Chief Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky
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The Mongolian People's Republic was the Mongolian communist state that existed from 1924 to 1992 that self-designated first as a people's democratic state and later as a socialist state. The Mongolian
Stalinist repressions in Mongolia
…repressions in Mongolia, known in Mongolia as the Great Repression, was an 18-month period of heightened political violence and persecution in the Mongolian People's Republic between 1937 and 1939. The repressions were an extension of the Stalinist purges (also known as the Great Purge) unfolding across the Soviet Union…
Khorloogiin Choibalsan (left), who led the MPR from 1939 to 1952, and Georgy Zhukov at Khalkhin Gol in 1939
The Government Palace, built in 1951, in Sükhbaatar Square during the 1970s
Yurt quarter in Ulaanbaatar in 1972
Darkhan-1 Railway Station in 1985