The People's Repubulic Of Mongolia

WI Mao (or, if something happened to him, his followers) had lost the Chinese Civil War & fled to Mongolia? Could they have been recognized & supported by Stalin?
 
If they lost that badly, would Stalin even care for them? He wasn't above supporting the Chinese nationalists after all.

I could imagine the likes of Mao having "tragic accidents", and replaced by people more loyal to Stalin.
 
WI Mao (or, if something happened to him, his followers) had lost the Chinese Civil War & fled to Mongolia? Could they have been recognized & supported by Stalin?

A defeated CCP would be more likely to seek refuge in the USSR than in the MPR. Stalin might grant them asylum and still hope for the eventual success of the revolution in China but in the meantime he would be trying to cut the best deal he could with Chiang Kai-shek.
 
The USSR already had a record of extensive cooperation with the Nationalists earlier on, Stalin only started backing Mao much later on. This question depends on circumstances like how long the civil war lasts and the extent of Soviet support for the communists.

Mao was too independent to bet set up by Stalin as a government in exile or something. Various European communists who spent WW2 in Moscow became the core of Warsaw Pact governments later on, but the Great Purges affected these emigres as well. The only survivors were sycophantic Stalinists, its hard to see Mao falling into line like Walter Ulbricht or Wanda Wasilewska.
 
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