Dashiin Damba
| Dashiin Damba Дашийн Дамба |
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| General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Party | |
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In office 22 February 1940 – 8 April 1940 |
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| Preceded by | Banzarjavyn Baasanjav |
| Succeeded by | Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal |
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In office 4 April 1954 – 22 November 1958 |
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| Preceded by | Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal |
| Succeeded by | Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal |
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| Born | March 29, 1908 Teshig Sum, Bulgan Province |
| Died | c. 1989 |
| Nationality | Mongolian |
| Political party | Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party |
Dashiin Damba (Mongolian: Дашийн Дамба; March 29, 1908 – c. 1989) was a Mongolian politician who was elected First Secretary of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) in 1954. He was ousted from office in 1958 and banished to internal exile a year later for his strong backing of de-Stalinization policies against the wishes of Mongolia’s Prime Minister Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal.
Damba was born on March 29, 1908, in Daiching Zasag banner (present day Teshig Sum, Bulgan Province). He joined the highly radicalized Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League (MYRL) in 1924, quickly rising to leadership positions first at local district levels then in Ulaanbaatar. From 1929 to 1930, he directed MYRL “shock troops” carrying out MPRP policies of rapid collectivization of small herders and the confiscation and redistribution of property belonging to the country’s nobles.
Damba officially joined the MPRP in 1930 and graduated from the party school in Ulaanbaatar in 1932. He was appointed Political commissar in the Mongolian People's Army and propagandized to government troops fighting armed insurgencies in Khövsgöl, Arkhangai, Övörkhangai, and Zavkhan provinces.
In 1938 he was elected provincial party secretary of the MPRP in Ömnögovi Province and a year later became a member of the MPRP Presidium and Secretary of the Ulaanbaatar MPRP Central Committee.
As the violent Stalinist repressions in Mongolia drew to a close in 1939, Mongolia’s leader Khorloogiin Choibalsan recruited Damba to assist in the arrest and rendition to the Soviet Union of Deputy Interior Minister Darizavyn Losol, one of the last remaining founding members of the MPRP. Damba deceived Losol into boarding a plane he believed was bound for Dornod Province in eastern Mongolia. Losol was instead flown to Moscow. In 1940, Damba was involved in another high-profile arrest, this time of MPRP First Secretary Banzarjavyn Baasanjav whom Choibalsan sought to have purged to make way for Stalin’s new favorite Tsedenbal. Damba was named MPRP First Secretary for just two months in 1940, effectively a place holder until Tsedenbal could ascend to the role. Despite his services to Choibalsan, Damba never managed to become part of Mongolian leader's inner circle.
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