Neo-Nazis appeared in Mongolia. The object of their hatred is the Chinese. Idol - Hitler. They wear black things, throw up their hands, like Hitler's henchmen, every time they greet and celebrate the birthday of their ideologue. Interestingly, they also advocate the purity of the nation from impurities, although they are by no means similar to the Aryans and have a far from Nordic appearance. According to the British newspaper The Guardian, which tells about this amazing phenomenon, the reason for the appearance of the Nazis in Mongolia is connected with the poor of the nation. The poorer the country, and the stronger the influence of its rich neighbor, the more likely it is that the nationalists that exist in any country will turn into bloodthirsty radicals. British journalists note: “High cheekbones, dark eyes and brown skin - it is unlikely that all this was the Aryan ideal of the Third Reich. A new strain of Nazism, spreading like a virus, has reached Mongolia.”
However, British journalists are mistaken in the rejection of the Mongoloid race by the Nazis. So, Kalmyk units served in the Wehrmacht and even SS units, not to mention the Turkic punitive detachment Idel-Ural (it included Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs). Moreover, in the German auxiliary units there were Arabs, and Indians, and Tibetans, and even blacks (recruited from captured Afro-French).
The most famous Mongolian Nazi organization is called "Tsagaan Khass", which means "White Swastika" in translation. Its statute states that it is a patriotic organization that defends the interests of its ordinary citizens in the face of many foreign criminals, against blatant inequality and indifference of politics, and, finally, against corruption. The country is also full of critics of the White Swastika: they claim that they simply find innocent "scapegoats" and attack them. Another popular group is the Dayar Mongol. She threatens to shave the heads of all her women who dare to sleep with the Chinese. Three years ago, one of the leaders of another Mongolian Nazi organization was convicted of murdering his daughter's friend: an ardent boy had the misfortune to study in China.
Even the US State Department reacted to the situation, which warned its citizens who were going to visit Mongolia as tourists. “In this country, cases of attacks on interracial couples have become more frequent. Systematic actions of ultranationalists are taking place here,” the State Department said in a statement. In this regard, Americans are advised to refrain from traveling to Mongolia.
There are many contradictions in the existence of neo-Nazism in Mongolia. First, the leaders of the White Swastika oppose violence and intend to get their way through political lobbying. Secondly, the European far right often attack the migrant Mongols and hardly consider them a "great nation".
But the Mongolian Nazis have their own reasons: “We must ensure a happy future for our children. They must be sure that the blood of our people is pure. If we start mixing with the Chinese, they will swallow us up,” argues Battur, a 23-year-old stronghold of national purity. “Adolf Hitler was someone we respect. She taught us how to keep our national identity,” adds the 41-year-old Nazi, who everyone calls Big Brother. “We do not agree with extremism and fascism, which was at the beginning of the Second World War. We oppose these massacres, but we support the ideology of nationalism, not fascism.” The appearance of these statements, of course, is also connected with the low level of education of the Mongols: it is unlikely that any of the Nazis currently existing in this country knows anything intelligible about the Holocaust and other death camps.
However, anti-Chinese sentiment in Mongolia is spreading without the participation of the Nazis: the population is confident that China is pursuing an imperialist policy and wants to occupy Mongolia, said Frank Bille of the University of Cambridge. Everyday Nazism in Mongolia reaches its limit: local bars rap with a call to shoot all Chinese, and the local population believes that Beijing is pursuing a secret policy that encourages its citizens to have sexual relations with Mongolians. In fact, everything is somewhat simpler: rich Chinese frequent Mongolia, and the local population is very poor. As is often the case in Russia, women who love money prefer foreigners in expensive cars to local guys.
Now 3 million people live in Mongolia, and no matter how active the Nazis are here, it is unlikely that this country will be able to avoid absorption by China. The struggle of the Nazis, however, sometimes deserves respect: they, for example, carry out raids on hotels in which local girls work as prostitutes. Prostitution in Mongolia is illegal, but the authorities turn a blind eye to it because of corruption, but the guardians of national purity do not.
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Such a genre of street art as graffiti is not very common in Ulaanbaatar. The inscriptions and drawings on buildings and fences are mainly applied by Mongolian teenagers from among those who listen to hip-hop. But in the last two or three years, swastikas and slogans like “Shoot the Chinese!” have been increasingly seen on the walls of houses in the Mongolian capital. and "All Chinese must die!".
The authorship of the inscriptions belongs to members of the Mongolian National Union (MNU), a neo-Nazi organization, which includes about 200 people. They salute each other with the Nazi salute, dress in military uniform SS, sometimes decorating it with the Iron Cross.
The WPC is headed by 23-year-old Shari Mungun-Erdene. Last December, in an interview with the Mongolian newspaper The UB Post, he floridly described the beliefs of the organization's members: “We are nationalists because we spread the ideas of nationalism. In other words, we can be called Nazis. Usually people think that the Nazis are cruel, but this is wrong. I think there are nationalists in every country.”
Mungun-Erdene sets out the goals of the MNF more clearly: "We must by all means ensure that the Chinese do not live here." In his opinion, most Chinese immigrants are engaged in illegal activities in Mongolia - pimping or drug trafficking. Another WPC member told The UB Post, “The Chinese are our main enemies. They are poisoning Mongolian blood by marrying our girls and intend to make the Mongols part of the Chinese nation."
According to Mungun-Erdene, Hitler was in many ways a student of Genghis Khan, and therefore it is not surprising that the ideology of the Third Reich is close to the Mongolian youth. “While in prison, Adolf Hitler read the life story of Genghis Khan, and he liked the book,” he says, adding that the concept of blitzkrieg is in many ways consonant with the principles of warfare of Genghis Khan.
The MNF is the youngest in terms of age of participants, but far from the only group in Mongolia with nationalist views and anti-Chinese sentiments. Since the 1990s, there have been two large neo-Nazi organizations in the country - "All Mongolia" and "Blue Mongolia", which currently have, according to various estimates, from 2 thousand to 3 thousand supporters. The head of the "All Mongolia" 50-year-old Zagas Erdenebileg, when asked what he thinks about the murders of Mongols in German concentration camps, replies, "It doesn't matter. We have the same course with the Nazis.” In his opinion, Mongolia needs to fight the Chinese threat for the sake of its own salvation. “If our blood is mixed with the blood of foreigners,” he warns, “we will be destroyed immediately.”
The popularity of neo-Nazism ideas is growing in Mongolia at the same time as the number of Chinese migrants is growing. There are already more than 80,000 of them in Ulaanbaatar and other Mongolian cities, and this is without taking into account illegal immigrants - not so few for a country with a population of 3 million people.
However, even though the MNF has managed to obtain the official status of a non-governmental organization, representatives of neo-Nazis have not yet been able to get into power. In last year's elections to the Mongolian parliament, the candidates of "Blue Mongolia" and "All Mongolia", who were held as independent deputies, did not get the required number of votes.
Hidden threat
The absence of a legislative initiative does not prevent the Mongolian neo-Nazis from fighting the Chinese threat with their own methods. Sometimes they beat migrants, sometimes the Mongols, seen in the company of the Chinese, also get it. For example, a taxi driver from Ulaanbaatar admitted to a Far Eastern Economic Review correspondent that he had suffered at the hands of neo-Nazis after giving a lift to two Chinese businessmen.
Members of "Blue Mongolia" shave the heads of Mongols who are seen in ties with the Chinese. (Interestingly, in France during World War II, this is how girls were punished for their association with the Nazis after liberation from the fascist occupation.) But the most striking lesson of anti-Chinese sentiment was taught to like-minded people by the leader of Blue Mongolia, Konkereedin Enkbat. In August 2007, his daughter introduced him to her young man named Chinbat, who was studying in China at the time. Enkbat became furious, called Chinbat a Chinese spy, took out a pistol and fired three shots. Bullets hit Chinbat in the stomach, palm and ear, he died in the hospital. During the investigation, Enkbat claimed that his daughter opened fire, and by accident. But at the trial in the middle of last year, Enkbat's guilt was proven, and he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Chinese migrants see the connivance of the Mongolian authorities in what is happening. “The police do not pay attention to ethnic conflicts,” complains the owner of a Chinese restaurant in Ulaanbaatar, whose customers have been repeatedly attacked by neo-Nazis. "Power") is allowed to call for the killing of the Chinese from TV screens.
Nevertheless, the flow of Chinese workers does not stop. Jobs have already been reserved for many of them in Mongolia. In Ulaanbaatar, for example, the main construction contractor is the Chinese company Beijing Construction Engineering Group (BCEG). And, of course, she invites workers from China. Mongolian customers, whose money is used to build houses and hotels, do not mind. “Yes, we have Chinese workers,” says Enktsetseg, manager of the Mongolian company MCS, which built the huge Shangri La office center in Ulaanbaatar. “They work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. They are the fastest builders I have ever seen. Buildings are growing like mushrooms.
In addition to the labor force, China supplies building materials and construction equipment to Mongolia. China is Mongolia's main trading partner (accounting for 70% of Mongolian exports) and provides half of foreign investment in the Mongolian economy, investing in construction and mining.
The Chinese authorities emphasize that their enterprises create jobs in Mongolia for the local population as well - more than 50,000 Mongols have already taken advantage of this. However, Beijing understands that Chinese economic expansion cannot be welcomed by all Mongols. “We must remember this and be ready for it,” says Chinese military expert Dai Su. “For a nation of only three million, the presence of several thousand neo-Nazis is a critical situation. And it’s not that Mongolia exists between Russia and China for several days, why didn’t this happen before?”
It could be assumed that the Mongols have a dislike for the representatives of the two neighboring states that at one time or another occupied Mongolia, that is, for the Russians and the Chinese. With the help of the Soviet army, Mongolia in 1921 gained independence from China, within whose borders it existed for centuries. However, the transition under the care of the USSR, according to neo-Nazis, also had a bad effect on the country. One of the leaders of Blue Mongolia, Gansuren Damdinsuren, for example, believes that “before the communists came to power, there was no prostitution, no prisons, no corruption in the country,” and wants to “revive that old Mongolia.” However, only the Chinese cause irritation among the Mongolian neo-Nazis.
On November 26, 2007, Blue Mongolia and All Mongolia activists held a joint rally on Ulaanbaatar's Freedom Square. Standing under blue flags with a swastika in the center and under banners depicting the 12 great Mongol khans, Gansyuren Damdinsuren declared: “We must not forget that Mongolia was a powerful empire. However, high-ranking officials are corrupt and give away land to foreigners. Our Mongolian ancestors did not sacrifice their lives in the fight against the enemy so that their land would pass to newcomers. Therefore, we are trying to reawaken nationalist ideas.”
It took several years for Mongolian neo-Nazism to become an established social movement, though not represented in parliament. Speaking at the UN Assembly seven years ago, Mongolian representative Purevjavin Gansuk said that the rise of nationalism in his country was due to economic backwardness. "Social and economic inequality," he declared, "engenders and stimulates the spread of racism and other types of intolerance." An interesting situation is emerging. In the coming years, the standard of living in Mongolia can only rise due to foreign investment, primarily from China, and they provoke the growth of nationalism. However, as world experience shows, nationalists and Nazis find ground under their feet even in countries with relatively independent economies.
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In Japan, for example, since 1982, the National Socialist Japanese Workers' Party (NSJWP) has been operating, whose leaders insist that a worldwide Zionist conspiracy exists and that Jews control Japanese politics through Masonic lodges. The NSYARP website, which has existed for ten years, has accumulated material on how Japanese and German troops cooperated during World War II, and on the close relationship between Hitler and Japanese officials. “Hitler had an extremely high opinion of Hiroshi Oshima after Japan,” reads one entry. “He said: “Oshima has a great brain.” Fully trusting Oshima, he even let him in on plans to attack the Soviet Union.
Members of the NUJRP are obviously longing for the days of the Empire of Japan and therefore call for the return of the country's military power and the re-establishment of the system of government of the shoguns. They are also in favor of the immediate return of the Southern Kuril Islands. In the past three years, NSNAR minivans with roof-mounted loudspeakers have frequently appeared on the streets of Tokyo, blaring "Reclaim the Stolen Northern Territories!" The same campaign vehicles were used by members of the NJRP to proclaim their demand for the abolition of the current Japanese constitution, which forbids Japan from creating an army and declaring war.
Just like the Mongolian neo-Nazis, members of the NUWP are unhappy with the growing influence of China. On their website, they demand "recognition of the independence of Manchuria, Tibet, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Inner Mongolia." In other words, they advocate the collapse of China. And in its place, they propose creating an alliance of new states, which will be joined by Taiwan, Mongolia and Japan.
In Taiwan, by the way, their own neo-Nazis have recently appeared. In 2006, a group of 20 students founded the National Socialist Association (NSA), which a year later had a thousand members. The leader of the organization, Yu Shuya, admitted in several interviews that he was not going to fully adopt Hitler's ideology. “We intend to study the useful ideas of Adolf Hitler, not his massacres,” Yu Shuya said, adding that he is primarily interested in building a welfare state.
Judging by reports in the Chinese press, the association's activists made no secret of their goal of seizing power in Taiwan. “We are tired of watching the constant disputes between the government and the opposition, so we decided to found an association,” said Su Nachi, one of the leaders of the NSA.
Members of the association wear distinctive signs like pendants with a swastika, but, according to Emil Shen, a professor at Suzhou University in Taipei (who once taught Su Nachi), these symbols do not have the same meaning for them as they do for Europeans. “These people don't really understand what Nazism is,” he said. “They're not really racists or anti-Semites. They don't even know what those words mean." Although there were messages on the NSA forum from which it can be understood that their authors still know something about Nazism. According to one of the forum participants, "If foreign workers have children in Taiwan, the government should destroy them." "In order to protect our gene pool from further deterioration, strict surveillance of the population and a system of cruel punishments are necessary," he said.
Neo-Nazis from the Iranian organization Sumka are also fighting for the purity of the gene pool of their nation. It was founded in 1952 by Davud Monshizade, a professor from Munich who fought on the side of the Germans. He revered Hitler and copied even his appearance, not to mention his beliefs. Under the leadership of Monshizade, Sumka enjoyed some popularity for several years, but soon fell apart, losing political influence. In the 2000s, it reappeared, retaining both devotion to the ideas of Monshizade and Nazi symbols. On the organization's website, which is maintained on a broken line English language, says: “The members of the party are ruthless enemies of Arabs, Muslims and Jews. From our point of view, all races (so in the text.- "Power") have some ability. But the white race, and especially the Aryan race, is endowed with qualities that others do not have. To keep the blood of a nation pure, it must be prevented from mixing with the blood of the weaker, lower races.
It seems that Asian and Middle Eastern neo-Nazi organizations are primarily adopting symbolism from their German predecessors, perceiving it as a kind of fashionable attribute. The ideological background of Nazism is either obscure to them, or unknown, or they are greatly distorted by them, which, in general, is for the better.
EGOR NIZAMOV
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Mongolian ultra-nationalism in its unexpected manifestation - on the street of Ulaanbaatar, young people in characteristic clothes throw up their hands in a Roman salute and shout “Sieg heil!”. These Mongolian guys from the neo-Nazi group “Tsagaan Khass”, which means “White Swastika” in Mongolian, are far from the Aryan ideal of Nordic appearance, but revere Hitler, paying tribute to his devotion to ethnic purity. Here is another example of how neo-Nazis appear in an impoverished country and direct their anger at outsiders. In Mongolian realities, the Chinese became such strangers.
Members of the White Swastika Brotherhood raise their hand in a Roman salute on a street in Ulaanbaatar. These people position themselves as patriots defending the interests of ordinary citizens in the face of foreign criminals, blatant inequality, indifference of politicians and corruption.
However, Mongolian ultra-nationalists are criticized for attacking innocent people as scapegoats. In the photo: one of the founders of the White Swastika group (right) on the street of the Mongolian capital.
The US State Department warned those who are going to visit Mongolia that last years here attacks on interracial couples became more frequent, including systematic actions of ultranationalist groups. The Dayar Mongol organization threatened that Mongolian women who sleep with the Chinese would have their heads shaved. In the photo: members of the White Swastika group in a Ulaanbaatar-themed Nazi-themed bar.
In the photo: one of the founders of the group, a 41-year-old Mongol who calls himself Big Brother. The leaders of the Tsagaan Hass say they do not support violence, although they respect Adolf Hitler. “He teaches us how to preserve our national identity,” says Big Brother. “We do not agree with his extremism and the outbreak of the Second World War. We are against all those murders, but we support the ideology of Hitler. We support nationalism, but not fascism.”
At the same time, you can’t argue against historical facts - during World War II, the Nazis executed Soviet prisoners of war who had pronounced Mongoloid features, and in our time, Australian and European ultra-rightists often attack Mongoloid immigrants. However, their style of “Tsagaan Hass” is motivated by the fact that the swastika is an ancient Asian symbol, which is certainly true, but does not explain the reason for the use of Nazi colors, Nazi greetings and other Nazi paraphernalia by the group.
Less than three million Mongols remain today. "We must keep the blood of our nation pure. This is closely related to our independence," says one of the members of the group, 23-year-old Battour. "If the Mongols mix with the Chinese, then soon our people will be gone. Mongolia is a poor country. Richer foreigners come here and take our women."
Anti-Chinese sentiment is becoming more and more popular in Mongolia. “While the majority of Mongolians believe that the deviation to the extreme right is too extreme, there seems to be a general opinion in the country that China, with its imperial, “devilish” ways, intends to take over Mongolia,” - says Frank Bille from the University of Cambridge, who is researching the phenomenon of Chinese being in Mongolia.
“We have heard about cases of violence by far-right organizations in Mongolia. They don't necessarily represent something good or bad,” said the Tsagaan Khass leader. However, he argues that their grouping is simply a structure to "implement the enforcement of the law." “We conduct checks: we go to hotels and restaurants to make sure that Mongolian girls are not engaged in prostitution and that foreigners do not violate the laws. We don't wool everyone and we don't beat the crap out of everyone. We check the information to make sure it is correct. We are trying to avoid the use of force,” he said. "Violence will be our last resort."
Member of the Mongolian neo-Nazi group Tsagaan Khass (White Swastika) at its headquarters in Ulaanbaatar. In Mongolia, there are more and more supporters of the radical ultra-nationalist group "Tsagaan Khass", which means "White Swastika" in translation. They revere Adolf Hitler and wear the paraphernalia of the Third Reich, respecting the German National Socialists for their loyalty to ethnic purity. Members of the Tsagaan Hass claim that they value Hitler only for his ideology, but not for unleashing the Second World War. They meet each other by throwing themselves up to the sun right hand and the words "Heil Hitler!". At the same time, they assure that they are against violence. Nevertheless, the Chinese often get it from radical nationalists. It is to the millions of Chinese who come to Mongolian cities that Mongolia owes the emergence of groups like the Tsagaan Khass. And this is not the only ultra-nationalist association in the country. In addition, interracial marriages cause a sharp rejection of the Tsagaan Hass. Some of them even call for women who marry Chinese to shave their heads for "betraying the interests of the nation." “We are forced to fight for the purity of the blood of our nation. This is the guarantee of our independence. If we start mixing with the Chinese, they will slowly swallow us up,” says one of the Tsagaan Khass leaders, nicknamed Big Brother. To date, the group includes about three thousand people. 
Leader of the Mongolian neo-Nazi group "Tsagaan Khass" ("White Swastika"). 
A tattooed member of a group of Mongolian skinheads during a workout in the gym. 
The leaders of the neo-Nazi group "Tsagaan Khass" ("White Swastika"). 
The leaders of the group next to the monument to the Mongolian national hero Chingunzhava. 
At a construction site in Ulaanbaatar. 
The swastika on the seat of the group leader's car. 
Painting of the Mongolian national hero Genghis Khan at the headquarters of the Tsagaan Khass group. 
The leader of the Tsagaan Khass group at the headquarters. 
Members of the group hang portraits of Mongolian heroes at their headquarters. 
The leader of the Tsagaan Khass group walks past a lingerie store on his way out of the headquarters. 
A member of the group is standing next to the tent at the quarry.
