1. Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav was Secretary of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party from 1932 to 1937 and served as Chief Secretary from 1933 to 1934.
10 Facts About Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav
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Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav ultimately fell victim to the purges himself, was arrested in 1939 on charges of counterrevolution and executed in Moscow in 1941.
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Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav was born in 1900 in Zasagt Khan Province district of Khovsgol Province.
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Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav joined the MPRP in 1925, first heading up a local MPRP cell and then attending the Party school in Ulaanbaatar in 1927 where he made a name for himself combating rightists in the student body.
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Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav was a staunch opponent of Prime Minister Peljidiin Genden, openly challenging many of his decisions and looking for opportunities to undercut him.
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Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav led calls within MPRP Central Committee for the prime minister's dismissal after Genden had confronted Stalin in contentious meetings, refusing to persecute Mongolia's Buddhist Church, publicly calling him a Russian tsar, and even slapping the pipe from Stalin's mouth during a Mongolian Embassy reception.
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In 1937 Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav received five months of political and organizational training in Moscow to prepare him to manage the purges that Stalin was planning to unleash in Mongolia.
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From October 1937 to April 1939, Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav's troika investigated 25,785 cases and condemned 20,099 persons, including over 16,000 lamas, to execution.
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Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav denounced Amar at an enlarged meeting of the MPRP Central Committee on March 6,1939.
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Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav was arrested on July 9,1939, by ministry of internal affairs officials.