Thread by @PolitsturmInter

"Leader of the Mongolian Revolution Damdin Sükhbaatar meets Lenin in 1921."

One hundred years ago, #OTD August 20th 1921, the "Mad Baron" von Ungern was captured, and the foreign occupation of Mongolia brought to a final end.

A thread for the Mongolian Revolution:

Earlier in 1921, forces of Red Mongolians, aided by the 35th Sibirskaya Rifle Division of the 5th Red Army, backed by Soviet industrial capacity, defeated Ungern's White army in June, which carried out a years-long regime of atrocities in Outer Mongolia, Siberia, and the Far East

The success of the People's Revolution was pronounced, and the Bodg Khan ceded authority to the Mongolian People's Party to establish a governance which would ultimately abolish the monarchy in 1924.

In 1915, the Republic of China and Imperial Russia had once agreed to the division of Mongolia and the denial of its independence.

After the October Revolution, Mongolia was ruled over by the generals of the Anhui clique, backed by Japan, and the White general Semyonov.

The imperialists maintained a shared division over the country, whose independence they denied, and whose people lived under semi-feudal conditions.

Historians now recognize Mongolians led their own revolutionary process, contradicting the age-old tales of Soviet "puppetry".

Bolshevik sympathizers in Mongolia thereafter connected Moscow with Mongolian delegations, offering them material support for their national liberation struggle against foreign occupation, and waging a shared war against the Whites in Siberia and the Far East.

Ultimately leading to the combined force of Sükhbaatar's Mongolian People's Party troops and the Red Army entering the capital city of Ulaanbaatar on the 6th of July, 1921, declaring the inviolability of the Mongolian nation and their shared revolution.