Kazakhstan and Mongolia, as the world's top two landlocked countries in terms of land area, opened the map and suddenly thought that the two countries directly bordered, but a closer look will find that Kazakhstan and Mongolia are only 38 kilometers away in a straight line, but they are not connected, and there is a helplessness of "one water, no pulse".
Historically, Kazakhstan and Mongolia have a deep relationship, which has to start with the Mongol Empire founded by Genghis Khan. It is said that during the heyday of the British Empire, colonies were all over the world, and the sun could be seen overhead at any time, but in the eyes of the Mongols in his heyday, he was really a younger brother. As the Mongol Empire, which directly ruled an area of 33 million square kilometers, the life of the fierce horse pole man never needed to be explained to anyone, and the whistling of a group of prancing horses alone could make Eastern European countries perform incontinence.
When the Mongols conquered Russia with blood and fire greetings and established the Golden Horde, his first khan was Genghis Khan's eldest son Shuchi, who had a son named Xiban, since the death of Genghis Khan, Xiban and his people have been living in the Russian steppe and living a nomadic life living by water and grass.
Later, the Xiban family and its affiliated tribes began to refer to themselves as "moon is farewell", which translates to "Uzbek" in today's words. Fast forward to 1450, by which time the Civan family had grown larger and stronger, ruling from Tobolsk to the Syr Darya River in Central Asia.
It was not until the seventh year of the Jingtai Dynasty (1456 AD) that the Xiban family was defeated by another group of Mongol Oirats. This group of Oirats has a more familiar name - the Varas. The reason why the Ming Dynasty changed the name of the country to Jingtai was also due to them, because these ruthless goods captured the former emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen, seven years ago.
After the Oirats defeated the Xiban family, a large number of nomads who had previously belonged to the Xiban family also moved east to the Chu River Valley and the Talas River Valley, and established another regime, Kazakhstan. So today's Kazakhs in Kazakhstan agree that the former ban is their ancestor.
Let's talk about the current Mongolia, most of the territory of Mongolia is inherited from the four major parts of Outer Mongolia during the Qing Dynasty, although they are not as red and seedling as the "golden family" of Inner Mongolia, but the ancestors of these four major departments are all from Genghis Khan's 11th Sundayan Khan, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are like fake Mongols.
Before the Soviet Union, Mongolia and Kazakhstan had always been connected. During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, Central Asia was divided between the Kokand Khanate, the Khiva Khanate and the Emirate of Bukhara.
In the mid-to-late 19th century, Tsarist Russia came to "three Central Asian countries sitting in rows, everyone spent fun together" and annexed these three countries successively, and reorganized the place in chaos, setting up the Turkestan Viceroyalty and the Steppe Viceroyalty. Among them, the Turkestan Viceroyalty mainly includes the traditional agricultural areas of Central Asia, while the Steppe Viceroyalty mainly covers the Kazakh steppe region.
When World War I broke out, Tsarist Russia, as a side of the Entente and the allies of Britain and France, fought hand-to-hand with the Allies, but did not expect that during this critical period, the domestic Red Soviet regime backstabbed Tsarist Russia, and took advantage of Tsarist Russia's illness to kill Tsarist Russia, and obtained extensive territory and actual control over Central Asia.
In response to the division of Central Asia by the "pan-Turkist" ideology that had sprung up from Turkey, Lenin creatively proposed the policy of "national self-determination", replacing the general pan-Turkist identity with a more specific petty nationalist identity, which played a role in drawing money from the separatist forces in Central Asia.
Subsequently, the Soviet Union realized that Central Asia has always been an unstable existence, so in line with the "way of checks and balances" to redivide Central Asia to ethnic jurisdiction, at that time the two Central Asian viceroyalties as union republics into the Soviet Union, but under the "enthusiastic guidance" of the Soviet Union were dismembered, Turkistan viceroyalty formed Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, steppe viceroyalty became today's Kazakhstan, thus the five Central Asian countries were officially born.
It may be that the Russians have been ruled by the Mongols for 240 years, and there is a natural wariness of the Mongol descendants, so when dividing the borders of the five Central Asian countries, it is particularly "intentional", how complex and calculated the national boundaries, how sharp the ethnic conflicts are divided, the British said that in front of the Soviets, General Mountbatten's "partition of India and Pakistan" is really a small witch.
Before the formation of the five Central Asian countries, the Soviet Union realized a problem, Kazakhstan and Mongolia are still not ashamed to "hook up" together, at that time Mongolia has less arable land and a large population, more than thirty percent of the country's population is still on horseback to seek a living, and Kazakhstan's steppe is vast, and the cultivated land reaches 20 million hectares. Therefore, every time the Mongols walked their horses, they couldn't help but sneak to the vast and sparsely populated Kazakh steppe and set up a yurt to settle.
The Soviet Union was waiting to watch out for the open guns and arrows of European countries, and on the other hand, it was disgusted by the "glue-like" of the Harmon and Mongolian countries behind it, the most important thing is that the Soviet Union, as the main body of the Russian nation, has always lingered the shadow of the Mongols ruling themselves, so that the former Mongol-ruled areas have once again formed a "monolithic" situation, which is tantamount to kicking a hard kick on the soft flesh of the Soviet Union's Central Asian hinterland.
The Soviet Union realized that Central Asia could be twisted into a rope, and it was definitely itself who was strangled in the end, so the Soviet Union did not wait and took up the Katyusha fire stick to Harmon and began to "beat the mandarin ducks". At that time, Kazakhstan was a member of the Soviet Union, Mongolia belonged to a satellite country of the Soviet Union, and there was a difference between relatives and distances, and if you wanted to teach two children who disobeyed, of course, you had to take your own son.
Kazakhstan is predominantly Kazakh, which was not divided due to the "national self-determination" policy pursued by the Soviet Union, but it also made Kazakhstan a Central Asian country with a "standing out" in terms of land area. In order to prevent Kazakhstan from "becoming bigger, stronger and more brilliant", the Soviet Union thought of a shocking plan of "if you can't beat it, you will integrate".
On the one hand, the land bordering Kazakhstan and Mongolia was cut off from each other, and on the other hand, a large area of northwestern Kazakhstan that originally belonged to Russia was transferred to Kazakhstan. At that time, this seemed to be a win-win situation for the Soviet Union and Kazakhstan, and Kazakhstan's land area increased in an instant, and the Soviet Union increased the proportion of Russians within Kazakhstan by dividing the land, and then strengthened its control over the Kazakh region.
The Soviet Union operated fiercely, and Mongolia became two hundred and five, because of the departure of Kazakhstan, Mongolia was left with only two countries bordering him. To the north are the fighting peoples who claim to fight bears with their bare hands, and to the south are the Chinese nation that claims to be unwilling to make a move, and as a result, it can kill a piece of the fight. As long as Mongolia does not become the safest country in the world, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mongolian national consciousness began to awaken, although not a descendant of Temu, but helpless Mongolia's sense of mission to "be a demon for the rise of Mongolia" is getting stronger and stronger.
Therefore, Mongolia put forward a "third neighbor" concept, Mongolia has many ambiguous objects of political "third neighbor", but there is only one geographical "third neighbor", that is, Kazakhstan, which was forced to break up with Mongolia under the forced intervention of the Soviet mother-in-law.
In order to continue the frontier with Kazakhstan, Mongolia wants to draw a gourd according to the Soviet Union's "land exchange policy", hoping to exchange 400 square kilometers of domestic area for a piece of land in the mainland Altai Mountains and open up the connection with Kazakhstan again, but we said that we don't want to give away the 400 square kilometers of land with yellow sand.
Mongolia is a country that sits on a mine and is of great strategic importance to Kazakhstan. Not only that, when Russia is mired in the quagmire of the Russian-Ukrainian war, there are many countries that have fallen into Russia, among which the biggest stone is thrown at Russia by Kazakh President Tokayev. He blamed Putin to his face and generously refused to recognize the independent status of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Also a member of the CSTO, Kazakhstan is so crazy to stab Russia in the back for no other reason, because "dogs see and kill dogs, how not to tremble", the main ethnic group of the 4 states in eastern Ukraine incorporated into Russia is Russian, which is similar to the 5 states allocated by the Soviet Union to the northwest region of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan is afraid that Russia will use the same tricks on itself. But Kazakhstan also knows that no matter how it falls against Russia, it will not be possible to completely crush the world's largest country.
What he has to do now is to try to get along with Mongolia, because geostrategically, Mongolia is bordered by the Trans-Siberian Railway in the north, and its strategic location is extremely important, once the Trans-Siberian Railway is damaged, Russia's vast east and west will be difficult to take care of, and the Arctic giant bear instantly becomes a polar little raccoon, which is also the reason why the United States and other NATO countries are desperately wooing Mongolia, and Kazakhstan is also exploring on this road.
The farthest distance in the world is when I stand in front of you, but I can't see or touch, and this is the awkward situation that exists between Kazakhstan and Mongolia today. The weaknesses of the Soviet Union, which were very concerned when it existed, have now become irreparable wounds for Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
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