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Time magazine reports on the disturbing rise of nationalistic neo-Nazi groups in Mongolia, many of whom are vehemently anti-Chinese.
Mongolia, which just played host to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, may need to do something about this problem as it wants to develop its mining capabilities for its own future.
Time writes:
Fifty-year-old Zagas Erdenebileg is the leader of Dayar Mongol (All Mongolia), the most prominent of the neo-Nazi groups. “If our blood mixes with foreigners’, we’ll be destroyed immediately,” says Erdenebileg, who has run unsuccessfully for parliament four times. He loathes the Chinese — whom he accuses of involvement in prostitution and drug-trafficking — and reveres Genghis Khan, who he says influenced Adolf Hitler. I ask him if he considers his adoption of the beliefs of a regime that singled out and executed people with Mongol features from among Soviet prisoners of war to be in any way ironic. “It doesn’t matter,” he shrugs. “We share the same policies.”
While the magazine reports that there are now “several thousand” neo-Nazis in Mongolia, it’s important to remember that this is, at best probably somewhere around 1 out of every 500 Mongolians. In other words, not that many.
