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On October 14, 1944, the Tuvan People's Republic became part of the Soviet Union, becoming the Tuva Autonomous Region. From that moment on, the Tuvans participated in hostilities until the end of the Second World War as citizens of the Soviet Union.
The Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( Russian: Тувинская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика; Tuvan: Тыва Автономнуг Совет Социалистиг Республика ), or the Tuvan ASSR ( Russian: Тувинская АССР; Tuvan: Тыва АССР ), was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR.
A year later, the then-Soviet satellite Tuvan People's Republic was annexed by into the Russian SFSR. During the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945, Outer Mongolian troops occupied both Inner and Eastern Mongolia, and Japanese collaboratist leaders like De Wang were kidnapped to Outer Mongolia to be inculcated with pan-Mongolist ideals.
The decision went into effect on 1 November 1944, and the Tuvan People's Republic thus became the Tuvan Autonomous Oblast, a part of the Russian SFSR (the largest constituent republic of the Soviet Union).
The Tuvan people fought the Nazis alongside the Russian Army, something that, as an American, I never thought existed. In almost every village I visited, there was a monument that listed the...
- Yekaterina Sinelschikova
Tuva, an area of only 172,000 square kilometers, is isolated from the surrounding regions of Russia and Mon- golia by an encircling ring of high mountains. It comprises part of Eastern. Siberia, in the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR), located to the south of Krasnoyarsk and Minussink.
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Tuva differs from neighboring national republics in that Russians are a small minority here – only around 16 percent of the population, according to the 2010 census (compared to 80 percent in Khakassia and 66 percent in Buryatia).