Mongolia in World War II

Mongolian People's Army soldiers at Khalkhin Gol, 1939
Mongolian horses being shipped to the USSR. The slogan translates as "From the Mongolian people—for the front!".
A detail from Ulaanbaatar's Zaisan Memorial

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 China.[2] Throughout the 1941–1945 war between Germany and the Soviet Union, Mongolia provided the Soviets with economic support—such as livestock, raw materials, money, food and military clothing—violating Mongolian neutrality in favor of the Allies.[2] Mongolia was one of two Soviet satellite states not generally recognised as sovereign states at the time, along with the Tuvan People's Republic; both of these republics participated in World War II.[3]

  1. ^ "Mongolia in World War II-1945". Ньюс аженси. Archived from the original on 27 November 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
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