Men 's teams from 13 countries participated Participation in the 2009 competition : Belarus , Finland , Kazakhstan , Norway , Russia , Sweden ( group A ) and Canada , Estonia , Hungary , Latvia , Mongolia , the Netherlands and the United States ( group B ) .

The Dalai Lama had fled Escaping to safety , first in Mongolia and later in China , but thousands of Tibetans armed Hold with antiquated muzzle-loaders and swords had been mown down by modern rifles and Maxim machine guns while attempting to block Hindering the British advance Motion .

Communism was abandoned GiveUp in countries such as Cambodia ( 1991 ) , Ethiopia ( 1990 ) , Mongolia ( which in 1990 democratically re-elected a Communist government that ran the country until 1996 ) and South Yemen ( 1990 ) .

In the second century BCE the region became Becoming part of the Xiongnu empire , a confederation of nomads centered Placing on present-day Mongolia .

Men 's teams from 11 countries participated Participation in the 2010 competition : Finland , Kazakhstan , Norway , Russia , Sweden , the United States ( group A ) and Canada , Hungary , Latvia , Mongolia and the Netherlands ( group B ) .

Their occupation lasted until the Soviet Union and Mongolia launched Process_start the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation in 1945 .