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image by Jaume Ollé, 22 December 2009
![[People's Republic of Eastern Mongolia]](../images/c/cn-em46.gif)
image by Jaume Ollé, 22 December 2009
Variant of flag:
![[People's Republic of Eastern Mongolia]](../images/c/cn-ch-impr.gif)
image by
Yuri Pirogov, 03 January 2013
The Eastern Mongolia, Hulunbuir, the former General Kingan Province of
Manchukuo and the present Northwestern part of the Province of Jilin of PPC
declared the region independence on 15th Jan 1946 with the national flag of
horizontal stripes of red , pale blue and red , the middle stripe twice the
width of the red stripes and charged with a yellow quirt and pick crossed and a
star in the center.
They rejected overtures from both Chinese Communists and their civil war
enemies Chinese Nationalists. The Eastern Mongolian Government, its attempt to
win allies in Mongolia blocked by Stalin, tried to win a promise of autonomy
within China but finally defeated by Chinese Communists under Lin Piao in May
1947 and the government was dissolved and added to Innner Mongolia of PPC.
During 1945-1946 prior to Independence Declaration they used the red flag with
yellow fimbriated red star and crossed quirt and pick in canton without
Mongolian national colour pale blue.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 December 2009
Some datas on Eastern Mongolian flag is given above, but no images was
provided.
Additional info.
Really the flag did not resemble the red flag of Russia. First variant probably
red flag. Next version of the flag was consisting of three equal horizontal
fields with the star depicts a crossed mattock and horsewhip on the central blue
strip. It was named "peasant-herdsman flag" in the book of Xiaoyuan Liu:
Xiaoyuan Liu. Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian
Independence, Chinese Territoriality, And Great Power Hegemony, 1911-1950 -
Stanford University Press, 2006 - 474 p.
Source:
http://books.google.ru/books?id=mhJY7VgEWTUC&pg=PA460&lpg=PA460&source=bl&ots=Plldx0ZxUy&sig=BdyzK__Ne9dhqvIE6DMnmef4xok&hl=ru&sa=X&ei=-WLlUNnmBcXZ4QT-qoDoDQ&ved=0CHEQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=flag&f=false
IMAMA is Inner Mongolian Autonomous Movement Association in Zhang-jiakuo,
organised by chinese communists. Then the GMD regime was of course absent from
the scene, exept that the IMAMA's "peasant-herdsman flag" flag flew side by side
with the national colors of the Republic of China.
On April 23rd, Minguo 36th year (1947), Inner Mongolian autonomy campaign league
(IMAMA) was abolished, and the autonomous government of Inner Mongolia was
founded. On May 3rd the same year, the autonomous government of Inner Mongolia's
first government committee meeting decided May 1st as the memorial day of the
establishment of the autonomous government of Inner Mongolia, and decided to use
the former flag of IMAMA as the government's flag.
Source:
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0809/solbi/csblog.html
This flag and national flag of the Republic of China are shown in the
map of Inner Mongolia,
dated 1947. Modern
image. There is
another flag of Inner Mongolia (1945)
Image only.
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SilkRoad-Lake/2917/syometsu/innermongolia.html
Source:
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110007024940/
It's unclear to me which flag it is.
Yuri Pirogov, 03 January 2013
The
photo clearly shows that the plain field flag is charged with the mattock
and horsewhip, which were mistaken for hammer and sickle by the author of the
text.
The Wikipedia
image is obviously erroneous - black strip instead of blue and yellow
symbols instead of white. Their shapes are reproduced well, though.
Tomislav Todorović, 03 January 2013
Some more links (in Chinese):
The History of Inner Mongolian flags -
http://hi.baidu.com/wjcz2012/item/29d48b4ef3f211d6dc0f6c8d
Two article in Chinese wikipedia -
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%85%E8%92%99%E5%8F%A4%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91%E5%85%B1%E5%92%8C%E5%9B%BD
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%85%E8%92%99%E5%8F%A4%E8%87%AA%E6%B2%BB%E8%BF%90%E5%8A%A8%E8%81%94%E5%90%88%E4%BC%9A
Curious image named "Inner Mongolia People's Revolutionary Party" -
http://www.qingis.com/mongol/rm.jpg
Yuri Pirogov, 03 January 2013
In Evans' Observers Book of Flags (1959)
[eva59] I read: "The flag of the Eastern Mongolian
Independent Republic resembles the red flag of Russia [Soviet Union], except that the emblem
below the star depicts a crossed mattock and horsewhip, representing the peasants
and the Mongol horsemen." So far I found nothing on it in my books about this.
Jarig Bakker, 12 April 2000
I think it was the flag of Inner Mongolia (in China).
Victor Lomantsov, 4 April 2001
The Eastern Mongolian Independent Republic was an attempt to establish a state
in the Mongolian inhabited western portion of Manchuria. The area was not part
of Inner Mongolia at the time, although afterwards the Peoples Republic of China
did incorporate it into Inner Mongolia from 1947 to 1969, and again from 1979
to the present. (Source: James Minahan, Nations Without States
[mnh96])
Ned Smith, 23 April 2001
