AH Challenge: Independent Tannu Tuva

Is there any way that Tannu Tuva can maintain its independence right up until the present day?

How could this be done?
 
Well by the looks of things at the very most the People's Republic was nothing more than a wayward satelite state that was recognised only by the Soviets and the Mongolians......

Perhaps if they werent nomadic and werent completely surounded (at least by the look of the map) by the Soviet Union (take the 'stans' from Russia to do this) and they might of had a chance to stay a border-region satelite state of the Soviet Union and later Russia.
 

Hendryk

Banned
"Independence" is a big word. If you can settle for "formally independent but for all intents and purposes under the thumb of one of its neighbors", that can be arranged. The place broke free of China at the same time and in much the same way as Mongolia, so it could plausibly have become a sister People's Republic to the USSR rather than be annexed outright.
 
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