However, the Russian Provisional Government did not recognize it, despite the fourfold appeal of Elbegdorzho Rinchino, Mikhail Bogdanov and other leaders of the Buryat National Committee.
[citation needed] This effectively became an ethnic cleansing at the level of the republic's state administration, with Moscow-appointed politicians replacing the repressed and executed Buryat leaders.
[citation needed] In 1937, mass repressions caused a third wave of Buryat migration to Mongolia, when people were forced to flee Soviet persecution, taking the bare minimum of necessities.
[4] Khorloogiin Choibalsan, a consistent supporter of Stalin, following the orders of the Kremlin authorities, began large-scale repressions against the entire Buryat population, who were summarily declared to be adherents of the hostile pro-Japanese ideology.
[citation needed] By all accounts, this had the character of ethnic cleansing: researchers cite the horrifying figure that up to 90% of the male population of Buryat origin suffered from the repression.
[citation needed] Buryats did not receive the status of a repressed people in the USSR because they were not subjected to mass deportation like Kalmyks, Chechens, Crimean Tatars.
[citation needed] Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote in his book "The Gulag Archipelago" that in 1929 35 thousand Buryat-Mongols were repressed and shot because of the uprising.
[citation needed] The authorities in Russia have never been interested in the Buryats becoming a numerous, strong and self-sufficient people, fearing separatist sentiments.
[13][14] It was only in 1991 that the Law "On Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repressions" came out, but it does not work equally for all administrative units where Buryats who suffered persecution live.
[citation needed] However, in Buryatia itself, the consolidation of regions was accompanied by protest rallies and harassment of local activists by security forces.
[citation needed] The anti-war movements "Free Buryatia Foundation" and "Asians of Russia" have begun working to ensure that as many people as possible are evacuated to Mongolia and Kazakhstan.