Why did Stalin wait until 11 October 1944 before annexing Tannu Tuva as part of the Soviet Union?
And why did he not give Tannu Tuva the status of a SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic)? Giving Tannu Tuva the status of only an outonomous olblast within the Russian Federation seen contrary to the pretense that joining the Soviet Union was voluntarily.
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Simple… he was busy completing other focuses.
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