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Mongolian People's Republic (MPR)
Since then, July 11 of every year has
been celebrated as Naadam Festival- the anniversary
of the victory of the revolution. The country's
Buddhist leader was retained as a figurehead and
the newly formed Mongolian People's Party (the
first political party in the country's history,
and the only one for the next 69 years) took over
the government. On 26 November 1924, the Mongolian
People's Republic (MPR) was declared and Mongolia
became the world's second communist country.
Mongolian communism remained fairly independent
of Moscow until Stalin gained absolute power in
the late 1920s. The Stalinist purges that followed
swept Mongolia into a totalitarian nightmare,
with the government's campaign against religion
being particularly ruthless. In 1937 a reign of
terror was launched against the monasteries in
which thousands of monks were executed. It's believed
that by 1939 some 27,000 people had been executed,
three per cent of Mongolia's population at the
time.
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