Monday, April 6, 2009

My first essay


Is Choibalsan hero or puppet?

In the twentieth century there lived a man who held all Mongolian fate in his hands.
In this period many young people like me know him from movies and fictions and consider him as a hero. But actually who was he?
  Somebody calls him not only the greatest leader but also perfect man. Someone claims he was a puppet of Stalin and the greatest criminal ever lived in ages.
  In order to answer this question let’s turn back to that complicated time.
The date is the 14th of July, 1936. In Ulaanbaatar in the most beautiful house for all Mongolian nomads but in our view just a short wooden house, there’s a man in military costume, sitting behind of the Russian type of desk, is thinking one thing very deeply. Because he has just received ambiguous present from Joseph Stalin who is his most respectful person. But why he is absorbed in thought?
The key is Father Stalin sent him four riffles and thirty thousand bullets for very big and unpredictable bad event that now we know very clearly. Who knows only two men change all the Mongolian nation.
  That event was the massacre, one of the deepest black spot in Mongolian history.
 From 1937 to 1939, he arrested about fifty six thousand people and over thirty thousand people, mostly lamas, were killed as the number of bullets. Every family has affected this catastrophe. Then does it mean he was a cannibal?
He did many terrible things such as ruthless elimination of rivals who didn’t acknowledge his status and didn’t follow Soviet policy. So as to hide all his crime he made personal cult in his nation.
  However, at that time every poor country had a problem that came under the influence of big country. Every part of the political system there were so many Russian teachers and they taught all the moves of Mongolians. In history no one could stand against the dominant country. Choibalsan just followed the prepared direction. Maybe someone argue that his bad manner influenced on century crime. But in my opinion, if he refused to do that, his life could end that time just as others. Of course they could find another one.
  On the other hand, during his rule considerable improvements made in the country with assistance of Soviet, were roads, communication lines, and improved the country's literacy rate.
Moreover if you study from some historical facts you can understand that Choibalsan was a Mongolian nationalist, and he never gave up a hope of uniting all of the Mongols under the Soviet policy. Choibalsan wanted to separate Inner Mongolia from China's hands. But in August 1945 Stalin concluded a treaty with China, which acknowledged outer Mongolian independence. Choibalsan continued to apply Stalin about unite the Inner Mongolia until 1949. But it never happened.
 

Today, it claims that Choibalsan was a tyrant, but he also victimized in front of complicated historical condition as other Mongolians such as many party members, monks and their victimized family.

We should learn from the history.

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