Dashzeveg
Basic information
Interviewee ID: 990063
Name: Dashzeveg
Parent's name: Baajgar
Ovog: [blank]
Sex: f
Year of Birth: 1949
Ethnicity: Zahchin
Additional Information
Education: tusgai dund
Notes on education:
Work: jijuur
Belief: none
Born in: Manhan sum, Hovd aimag
Lives in: [None Given] sum (or part of UB), Ulaanbaatar aimag
Mother's profession: herder
Father's profession: herder
Themes for this interview are:
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family
childhood
cultural campaigns
collectivization
travel
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childhood
schoolchildren's life
mother - father
herder's life before collectivization
children's upbringing
repression
belief
cultural campaigns
collectivization
collective member
urbanization
Chinese
Russians
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Summary of Interview 080903A with Dashzeveg
B.Dashzeveg was born in 1949 in Manhan sum of Hovd aimag. She studied at the vocational school kindergarten teachers, and then worked as one. Following her husband who was a military man, she had worked for twenty years in the 174th unit of Ulaanbaatar, in the military unit at Hovd, 203d unit at Zuun Bayan and the 016th military unit of Ulaanbaatar. From 1991 she lived in Ulaanbaatar. At the time of giving the interview she was working as a receptionist of an Institute.
In the start of her interview she mostly talked in detail about her childhood and the life of a schoolchild, and about her parents’ life. Her parents were considered rich in Manhan sum and they had 4, 5 stallions, over 1000 sheep and also they grew rye and they milled it and made flour. She shared briefly her mother’s reminiscence about her mother’s older brother Shaalav who was repressed and died and how people of that time were arrested, interrogated and shot. She also talked in detail about how her mother concealed her Buddhas and sutras up in the rocks, covering them with stones.
During the cultural campaign on weekends the hospital people together with people from the district visited the ails checking the number of mattresses, blankets, where the towels were and asking where the children’s white bed sheets were. The ails who met the requirements were given an award: “The Leading Civilized Ail”. Besides, she talked about the caution of the people in the beginning of the collectivization movement. They were afraid to be left without any livestock and for their children to have no food. One manifestation of this was that her mother, in order to retain half of her cattle, made her son marry when he was 16 years old and she gave him 500 sheep from her livestock. Nevertheless, they had very many cattle collectivized.
At the end of the interview she talked about how she sensed the difference of the sum, the aimag centre and the city and how she used to adapt to the differences. And also she talked about the Russians and the Chinese who worked and lived in Mongolia.
