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Given Mongolia's profound dependence on the Soviet Union, Mongolian leaders had several times proposed that Mongolia join the Soviet Union, yet Soviet leaders, wary of harming ties with Mao's China, were not supportive.

In the late 1920s, radical western Mongols resented Khalka domination and proposed that western Mongolia and Tuva together join the Soviet Union. In the 1940s and early 1950s the Soviet-trained technocrats under Choibalsang repeatedly questioned whether socialism could be built in Mongolia without joining the Soviet Union. The procurator B. Jambaldorj raised the possibility in 1944, when Tuva joined the Soviet Union, and Daramyn Tomorochir and Yumjaagin Tsedenbal raised it again late in Choibalsang's life.

Choibalsang himself violently opposed such ideas, but after his death the Mongolian Politburo in 1953 approved unification, only to be rebuked by V. M. Molotov for their 'simple-minded error.' In the mid-1970s the Soviet ruler Leonid Brezhnev sounded out his Mongolian counterpart Tsedenbal about this issue. By then, however, the very success of Mongolian industrialization with Soviet aid had decreased Mongolia's perceived need for unification and so the issue was dropped.

My PoD is what if Stalin pressed for the Mongolians to join the USSR in 1944 along with Tuva? This could a major issue with Mao and the KMT as China still had it's owm claims on Mongolia.

Now assuming the U.S.S.R falls in 1991 will Mongolia be part of the Russian Federation, (perhapsdue to it’s small 1944 population and large scale Russian immigration etc) or will it become a new state like the other SSR?
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