Why did the USSR Refuse to Annex Mongolia? (Short Animated Documentary)

It's not often a country asks to be annexed and even rarer that the answer is no. Yet this is what happened when Mongolia asked the USSR for just that. So why did the USSR say no? To find out, watch this short and simple animated documentary.

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[kaiserwilhelm]

Because they didn’t have the right dlc

[Kevindp]

Imagine going back in time and telling Genghis Khan that his descendants will one day beg the Rus to rule over them.

[andtheinternettkills]

When I was in Mongolia a few years back I had some great discussions with my tourguide who used to be an officer during the communist regime (He even went to a military academy in Moscow). The mongolian military was structured to fight a war against the Chinese with massive arms transfers from the USSR, and so an additional reason it was never annexed was that it effectively functioned as a buffer between China and the railway infrastructure towards Irkutsk / Ulan-Ude. In a conflict the chinese would have to fight their way through Mongolia to stop soviet reinforcements from arriving by train. There is also the matter of the relatively short distance between Beijing and Ulan-Bator, so having Soviet troops massed at the border with Mongolia rather than southern Mongolia was probably a good compromise in terms of maintaining a degree of deterence and avoiding escalating tensions.

[passionofthecrust]

"Don't worry, i'll annex you as soon as Paradox updates my focus tree . . ."

[daveb.]

I always laugh whenever they show the cartoon man (or woman) bounding through the daisies.☺

[khukri_wielderxxx]

I love how this channel answers the most odd yet obvious questions that we always and yet never think about

[aldotorres]

"Hey Russia, remember when we conquered you in the 1200's? How about you return the favor?"

[dy]

Mongol to Rus 1240: "Bark for me."
Mongol to Rus 1920: "Woof."

[ZearthGJL]

Mongolia: Tries to join a country and gets rejected.
Singapore: Tries to join a country only to get kicked out afterwards.

[waIdemar]

Tsedenbal: Asked to be incorporated into the USSR at least 6 times
Genghis Khan:Shame

[legolas-xuou]

Monglia: annex me like one of your polish girls

USSR: uh, thanks, but no thanks

[zacknelson]

I love how like 80% of this channels videos are questions to which my reaction to is "I've never thought about that or asked it before but now I need to know." Prime example here.

[thekeystoneconservative]

"Monday the 4th of Never" lmao.

[michaelrizka]

Mongolia: why don't you annex me :(
Soviet: *having flashback about Mongol invasion

[airmusic]

Mongolia said marry me but Russia said no because it was already getting everything it wanted without the marriage that would infuriate Mongolia's exes.

[Burboss]

Fun fact: Mongolia was one of the largest (if not the largest) economic supporters of USSR in WWII, beating USA is several categories (e.g., food and raw materials).

[sharielane]

So it was a "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" situation.

Mongolia needed to play hard to get.

[lmonlme]

“Monday the 4th of never”

I laughed way harder than I should of at that.

[nicholaskelly]

Bulgaria also asked to become a Constituent Republic of The USSR.
Apparently Khrushchev was very much against this idea for similar reasons. As like Mongolia the USSR was able to acquire anything it required without having to govern the country. Khrushchev is also believed to have commented over the Bulgarian request in the following terms "We already have enough "Turkeys" (ie "Difficult Territories") in the USSR. We do not need anymore!" I suspect that this also applied to Mongolia as well.

[caesar]

If you didn't notice, the sign at 1:31 said "Annex me (daddy)".
Legendary.