Who Killed Mongolian Buddhists
In 1939, immediately before the start of WWII, a big battle was fought by the Imperial Army of Japan and Soviet Union troops at the border between Manchukuo, a puppet nation of the Empire of Japan, and Mongolian People's Republic, a satellite nation of the USSR.
The Battles of Khalkhyn Gol constituted the decisive engagement of the undeclared Soviet–Japanese border conflicts fought among the Soviet Union, Mongolia and the Empire of Japan in 1939. The conflict was named after the river Khalkhyn Gol, which passes through the battlefield. In Japan, the decisive battle of the conflict is known as the Nomonhan Incident (Nomonhan jiken) after a nearby village on the border between Mongolia and Manchuria. The battles resulted in total defeat for the Japanese Sixth Army.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Khalkhin_Gol
Documents obtained from the former Soviet Union authorities after the fall of the communist empire in 1991 show, however, that it was not one-sided defeat on the Japanese side.
Forces on the Japanese Side:
Troops: 24,000
Artillery: 120
Tanks: 100
The Loss on the Japanese Side:
Death in action: 8,440
Injured in action: 8,864
Tanks: 30
Warplanes: 180
Forces on the Soviet Side:
Troops: 52,000
Artillery: 570
Tanks: 800
The Loss on the Soviet Union Side:
Death in action: 9,700
Injured in action: 16,000
Tanks: 400
Warplanes: 360
The staff headquarters of the Imperial Army in Tokyo judged that the USSR could not mobilize big troops to the expected battle ground around the river Khalkhyn Gol. It was because the distance from the nearest base with a railroad station of the Soviet Army to the battle ground was more than 600 km (400 miles), while the distance to the nearest base of Japanese troops was about 200 km. So, the Japanese generals in Tokyo sent only a division which had been organized on a tentative base.
Tokyo did not take the occasion as a chance to invade Mongolia and drive Soviet troops out of the satellite country of the Soviet Union. The central government in Tokyo had a localization policy for this border conflict, though generals stationed in Manchuria intended to make the best use of this opportunity for exercising their military power no matter how their military means were restricted by Tokyo. On the other hand, the Soviet Union and Stalin had to show their military strength to Tokyo so that the Empire of Japan would not launch a full scale war against Moscow, since there was a strong possibility that the Soviet Union had to concentrate on a coming war against Nazi Germany.
But the issue at point here is not on the Empire of Japan but the satellite country of the USSR Mongolian People's Republic.
Stalin and leaders in Moscow wanted to put Mongolians under their rule, while this once-glorious Asian tribe had narrowly got independent from China and established their own country in 1924. Like the Empire of Japan put Manchu under its rule, Russian communists wanted to take Mongolians on their side. But there was a big obstacle: Buddhism.
To get rid of influences of Mongolian Buddhist leaders or lamas from the general public of Mongolia, Stalin and Russian communists decided to carry out a purge of high-ranking monks.
From 1932 to 1939 when the Nomonhan Incident occurred, Soviet agents and their Mongolian henchmen arrested and killed 14,201 Buddhist monks in Mongolia while put into jails 3,751 monks for 10 years. Those communists also killed more than 20,000 Mongolian politicians, military officers, and active anti-Soviet Mongolians. This number was huge as the population of Mongolian People's Republic at the time was about only 700,000.
But after WWII the Chinese Communist Party committed a more horrible purge of Mongolians living in Chinese territory. Between 1966 and 1976, the Chinese Communist Party arrested about 800,000 Mongolians and executed 100,000 of them.
Anyway it cannot be thought that the Imperial troops of Japan killed more Mongolians or Manchus or even Chinese in Manchuria than Russian communists or Chinese communists having killed so many innocent or Buddhist Mongolians before and after WWII.
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