Tömör
Basic information
Interviewee ID: 990207
Name: Tömör
Parent's name: Süh
Ovog: Borjigon
Sex: f
Year of Birth: 1946
Ethnicity: Halh
Additional Information
Education: higher
Notes on education:
Work: retired
Belief: Buddhist
Born in: [None Given] sum, Ulaanbaatar aimag
Lives in: Bayangol sum (or part of UB), Ulaanbaatar aimag
Mother's profession: milker
Father's profession: carpenter
Themes for this interview are:
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family
cultural campaigns
belief
work
industrialization
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mother - father
childhood
schoolchildren's life
children's upbringing
repression
cultural campaigns
work - labor
collectivization
belief
men and women
privatization
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Summary of Interview 090604A with Tömör
S. Tömör was born in 1946 in Ulaanbaatar city. Having completed a communication course, he worked in Arhangai, Bayanhongor, and Gobi-Altai aimags and then he went to Ulaanbaatar and became a paratrooper in the Ministry of Public Security. Then he had worked in the General Police Department for 25 year and retired. He graduated from an evening Institute and became an officer.
In the beginning of the interview he talked about his parents, his childhood and his private life. He was raised in a family with many children so he learned to be independent and make various things that were useful later in his life. His father-in-law Luvsanochir worked in the Civil Air Transportation as an engineer when a decree was issued and a group of people were fired from work. He mentioned it was one example of repression and he shared the things he had heard and read about repression. He also talked in detail about the cultural campaign that brought great changes in the household culture such as preservation of hygiene, improvement of sanitary conditions and improvement of their surroundings. He also mentioned that ten-odd children of his family not only had separate bed cover and mats, and white bed sheets but his brothers and sisters started to change their clothes. In this way it gave the individuals a new way of life.
He also talked about how religion had changed in Mongolia and he noted that in recent times the influence of religion on the state had increased. He also shared the things he had heard from his parents about the collectivization movement. He talked in detail about industrialization during socialism, the work attitude of the people, the employment process, how people managed their lives and the changes of the relations between men and women.
At the end he shared his thoughts about the privatization process. He had worked his whole life in the military and police therefore he had not seen much of the results of privatization. He gave his privatization coupons to the Gobi enterprise but he had never seen any other benefit than 29500 tögrögs for the privatization dividend of 5 people.
