Why did Stalin wait until 11 October 1944 before annexing Tannu Tuva as part of the Soviet Union?

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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