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A little known story about occult level mysticism and the mad delusions of a would be Khan.

To make a long story short, in 1921, a Baron named Roman Ungern von Sternberg, a White Russian soldier and loyalist to the Czar (who had the eyes and mysticism of Rasputin and the dreams of Hitler), took control of Mongolia from the Chinese with the aid of a mixed army of cossacks, tribesmen, Russians, and Mongolians.

Sternberg then went on to declare himself dictator of Mongolia; but not only that, he was a fervent monarchist and an insane warlord who believed he was the reincarnation of Genghis Khan, was a believer in a violent interpretation of Buddhism where his genocidal butchery sent less desirables up to be reincarnated into better beings, and set his sights on building a new Mongolian empire with him at the helm, and perhaps even restoring the Quing dynasty and uniting the Far East under it.

However, Sternberg only ruled for a few months in 1921 (March to August, in fact), and was eventually captured by the Bolsheviks and summarily executed.
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So my challenge to you is to make Sternburg's ambitions successful, either in just becoming a successful dictator of Mongolia and at most, achieving his dream of establishing a vast empire in the East. And how would such things affect the world and history at large?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Ungern_von_Sternberg
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