Former President of Mongolia, Elbegdorj Tsakhya, has currently moved to X to troll Vladimir Putin. This is because on February 9, during an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin talked about Mongolia and its history, which was apparently false.
After the interview, Elbegdorj uploaded maps of the vast lands of the Mongol Empire on the social media platform. These maps included the regions of modern Russia. read caption,
“After Putin's talk. I found a historical map of Mongolia. Don't worry. We are a peaceful and free nation.”
According to sources such as News.au, Putin opened the two-hour interview by explaining Russian history and supporting the bombing campaign against civilians, which he said was historically aimed at subjugating Ukrainian territory.
Vladimir Putin also stated that Russian sovereignty dates back to the ninth century, but historians disagree. He allegedly claimed that Mongolia was under the rule of ancient Russian rulers.
On the other hand, once the interview went viral, former President of Mongolia, Elbegdorj Tsakhya, responded cheerfully to Putin.
After his latest interview, Vladimir Putin was trolled by the former president of Mongolia
Vladimir Putin was recently trolled by former Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhya. Tsakhya was a journalist from Mongolia. He led the country as president from 2009 to 2017. He also served as prime minister once in 1998, and once in 2004-2006.
In addition, according to Wikipedia, since the Soviet Union supported the Mongolian People's Republic throughout the Communist era, relations between Mongolia and Russia have always been friendly.
In the years after communism, Mongolia and Russia remain partners. Russia has two consulates general in Erdenet and Darkhan, and an embassy in Ulaanbaatar. Moreover, according to the researcher's works, the Mongols ruled Russia for 240 years, from the 13th to the 15th century.
However, recently, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin repeatedly stated that Russia claims Ukraine despite Ukraine's independence by drawing borders from history to justify its invasion.
However, according to Britannica, the Mongol Empire was at its peak in the 13th century under Genghis Khan and his descendants. It extended 6,000 miles across Eurasia and was much larger than the Russian or Soviet empires ever reached.
But, according to Putin, it all started in 862 when the northern leader Rurik arrived in Novgorod to take control of the Rus clan. During the same interview, he summarized centuries of Russian and European history. However, by the standards of works, historians have claimed that much of the history he presents is unreliable.
On the other hand, according to the Harvard Crimson, former President Elbegdorj, 60, was a key figure in the 1990 revolution that overthrew communist power and went on to preside over independent Mongolia as president and prime minister.
President Elbegdorj's tweet included four images. Maps of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were present in one of the pictures. One map showed the size of the empire, which at its height occupied nine million square miles. The outline of the empire is laid out on another map on the modern frontier. It includes large parts of Russia as well as China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and many other small countries.
A third map compares the possessions of the Roman Empire at its height in the second century with those of the Mongol Kingdom, showing how easily the latter could be integrated within the former.
The fourth map, drawn shortly after Russia's independence from the Mongol Golden Horde in the late 15th century, depicts the Mongol Empire dwarfed by early Russia, then the Moscow Principality under Ivan the Great.
On the other hand, according to Newsweek, Putin went so far as to say that modern Mongolia was a communist-controlled Soviet satellite for most of the 20th century.
Neither Vladimir Putin nor the former president of Mongolia said anything else about this matter after Putin's interview or Elbegdorj's tweet.
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