Anonymous
Basic information
Interviewee ID: 990205
Name: Anonymous
Parent's name: Anonymous
Ovog: Batbuyan
Sex: f
Year of Birth: 1950
Ethnicity: Halh
Additional Information
Education: higher
Notes on education:
Work: Head of XX district Red Cross
Belief: Buddhist
Born in: Tonhil sum, Govi-Altai aimag
Lives in: Bayangol sum (or part of UB), Ulaanbaatar aimag
Mother's profession: worker
Father's profession: herder
Themes for this interview are:
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family
repressions
cultural campaigns
work
NGOs
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private life
mother - father
repression
belief
holidays
cultural campaigns
collectivization
work - labor
Revolutionary Youth League
family
privatization
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Summary of Interview 090602A with Anonymous
Anonymous was born in 1950 in Gobi-Altai aimag. In 1965 she finished the seventh grade in the Sharyn Gol district of Darhan city and then studied at the kindergarten teacher’s school. After graduation, she worked as a kindergarten director for six years in Zuunharaa in Selenge and as a League committee darga for ten years. Then she worked as a trade union darga and as the coordinator of the League committee for the railway in Choir, Dornogobi aimag. In 1990 after the democratic revolution she worked at the Red Cross organization.
At the start of the interview she talked about her parents and that she was born into a family with fourteen children but then was adopted by her uncle. She also talked about her work and life history and she concluded that her work in the development of youth and protecting the rights of workers and the humanitarian sector was a distinctive aspect of her life.
She also talked about her granddad’s older brother, a lama named Halzan who was repressed in 1939 and he was later rehabilitated. Until 1990 only the lamas and the older people had had belief, but from1990 religion spread in the countryside and the city, and a relationship developed between the state and religion. She talked in detail about the transformation and changes of Mongolian’s belief. She also mentioned that although before 1990, Tsagaan Sar was not celebrated as an official holiday, people didn’t end the customs of preparing plate full of refreshments and making buuz and greeting each.
She also talked in detail about the cultural campaigns. The cultural campaign activities were implemented jointly by the hospital organizations, the women organizations and the state and public organization workers and the ‘Cultured Household”, the ‘Cultured Entrance’ [referring to a particular entrance to a block of flats], the ‘Cultured Street’ addresses were given to those who had met the proper requirements. She also mentioned that many Russian specialists worked in the railway system and because of their influence there had been many changes in the household culture. She also shared what she had heard and read about the collectivization movement and concluded that through collectivization the people started to cooperate and learned the mentality to assist each other.
Later in the interview, she talked about the work and life of the socialist period, people’s work attitude as well as pre-school education. She mentioned about the [Revolutionary Youth] League organization, the family, privatization and many other issues. She gave her privatization vouchers to the APU company factory but because they never gave her any profit, she sold them for 60000 tögrögs. Through the privatization she obtained a three room railway apartment and she feels that privatization changed her life.
