Zundui
Basic information
Interviewee ID: 990303
Name: Zundui
Parent's name: Dari
Ovog: Haahuyag
Sex: m
Year of Birth: 1925
Ethnicity: Tuvan
Additional Information
Education: higher
Notes on education:
Work: retired
Belief: Buddhist
Born in: Höh saari sum, Baruun Altai aimag
Lives in: Zaamar sum (or part of UB), Töv aimag
Mother's profession: herder
Father's profession: herder
Themes for this interview are:
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collectivization
cultural campaigns
military
privatization
childhood
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military service
group
childhood
schoolchildren's life
children's upbringing
cultural campaigns
collectivization
herder
agricultural industry
work - labor
privatization
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Summary of Interview 090807A with Zundui
D. Zundui was born in 1925 in a place called Höh Saari near Shar Sum in the western part of present-day China. At the age of six he came together with his older brother and his mother to the western land of Mongolia - Hovd aimag. At that time the White Russians together with the Kazaks robbed the Urianhai, the Dörvöd, the Torguud and the Tuva nationalities that lived in the Western Altai therefore they fled from there. He tended livestock and then he was called to serve in the army. He mentioned that he took part in the battle that took place in an area called Baidragbogd of Bulgan sum, Hovd aimag. He said that since 1949 there hasn’t been a sound of a gun on the Mongolian border.
At the start of the interview he talked in detail about the development of the collectivization movement and how the collectives expanded and developed. In 1959 he collectivized 217 head of livestock, joining the collective and he tended 500 collective livestock.
He also briefly talked about the cultural campaigns. At that time such activities like inspecting the hygiene of the countryside herders and teaching the ABCs were widely organized and great changes happened in the mindset of the people. He also talked about the changes in the herders’ life and work, the countryside school and the relationship between parents and their children.
Later in the interview he talked about democracy and privatization. He mentioned that privatization was conducted chaotically. He said, if the law was perfected and all the state property estimated precisely and only after that the privatization was carried out, we would have had fewer errors. He also shared his thoughts about the work attitude of the people in the socialist period and how it has changed.
