Rare Y. TSEDENBAL Signed Mongolia Communist Leader USSR

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LOW STARTING BID! NO RESERVE! YUMJAAGIYN TSEDENBAL (1916-1991) Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal joined the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) in 1939 and entered the government as deputy Minister (later Minister) of Finance. He was first secretary of the MPRP Central Committee (1940-1954, 1958-1984) and after serving as deputy Commander in Chief of the Army and Chief of the Army's political directorate, he rose to deputy Premier (1948-1952) and then Premier from 1952-1974 and Head of State (Chairman of the People's Great Khural) from 1974-1984 .His growing cult of personality and increasingly autocratic rule bound Mongolia to a repressive, hard-line pro-Soviet policy. He stationed Soviet troops along Mongolia's border with China, replaced traditional Mongolian script with Russian Cyrillic characters, and clung to a stagnant, Soviet-inspired centrally planned economy.Tsedenbal was unexpectedly removed from office in 1984 while on holiday in the Soviet Union, w he remained in exile. He was formally denounced by the Mongolian government in 1988, but he was too ill to return for trial. Parliament stripped Tsedenbal of his title Marshal and revoked his right to wear dozens of medals (including "Hero of Mongolia" and "Hero of Labor") in 1990 during the country's transition to democracy. Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal died in Moscow in 1991. Mongolian read more