Once upon a time she-wolf lived together with her cubs, killing and eating steppe antelope, mountain deer, horses and other livestock. One day accompanied by her two cubs, she came upon a herd of horses and a flock of sheep. I will catch and eat a sheep said one of the cubs and the mother […]
The wolf is very loyal to its destiny. The proverb the wolf aspires toward the forest human son aspires toward home grew out of thousands of years of observation. Choton told me one story that links to this aspiration of the wolf to the steppe. During the national holiday Choton was hunting marmots on Five […]
“The outer Mongolian wolf is healed, when it licks its wound three times” It was 1975. Wolver Mishig was riding along Stony river a tBeaver Mountain with several other hunters. They saw the tracks of an animal who had crept on all fours across the river ice. Wondering why an animal would crawl so, they […]
The Buddha was distributing shares to the animals. One wolf was chasing an antelope when he heard about it. He abandoned his chase and impetuously came running before the Buddha, panting heavily. The Buddha told the wolf that it had missed its share by coming late. The Buddha said you have to get food using […]
The widespread genocide had ended. In late 1939, Choibalsan left again for Moscow to report on the work he had accomplished and to seek advice on his next move. He took with him Tsedenbal, about whom Stalin had enquired a couple of months earlier. Tsedenbal, who had graduated from Irkutsk in 1938, spent several months […]
Buryats fled from the Soviets in great numbers resettling in Mongolia and Manchuria, bringing an informal and sophisticated transnational network of relations into being. Apart from the Great Purge, the NKVD managed to achieve quite a lot in the Far East. After 1933, the Trans-Siberian Railway was upgraded to become a two-way route, and the […]
Every time Choibalsan returned from Moscow, he brought with him a list of people who were to be eliminated. this time, several days after he arrived back in Ulaanbaatar, Party Chief Baasanjav and Union of Revolutionary Youth Chief Sengedoij were among those arrested. A Vacancy Opened Up This was a mop-up operation to […]