I found it hard to believe that Stalin would give Buddhism any special treatment, and suspected his motives were political. The people of the Buryat Republic are for the most part ethnic Mongolians who follow Lamaist traditions, and Stalin must have softened his policies in order to win them over.
我還是很難相信史達林會對佛教另眼相待，覺得主要動機應是基於政治考量，布里雅特共和國的主要居民是篤信喇嘛教的蒙古人，為了攏絡人心，才施以懷柔政策。