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7/14/2025, 4:09:36 AM
“All these people telling me I should reclaim the throne to Mongolia but I’m literally just a girl who drinks matcha,” Leonie quipped in one TikTok video which racked up more than 2 million views since being posted on June 30.
“I posted that video and I went to sleep,” Leonie told The Post. “And the next day I woke up and I had a million views, which for me was surreal.”
While much of the attention was lighthearted, some of it was extreme.
That included far-right fanatics aligned with Roman’s ultra-nationalist ideology, and those condemning her as guilty by association for Ungern’s crimes.
“I feel like I’m a case study on how a viral video can bring unwanted attention from ideologies that I personally don’t align with,” she said.
“I’ve gotten a lot of comments … a lot of sexism … racism,” she added.
Despite the “scary” experience, Leonie still carries her name with “pride and honor,” because of her “amazing family members,” she said.
“My great-grandparents got murdered by the Nazis for helping Jews flee the country,” she said, adding how “shocking” and “hurtful” it was to see her name taken up as a cause by extremists.
Leonie’s video also got comments from users in Mongolia, where attitudes toward Ungern are mixed.
“A lot of Mongolians say, ‘In our home, [Ungern’s] a hero.’ There are some that say, ‘Without [Ungern], we would possibly belong to China right now,'” she said.
“On the other hand, there are also a lot of Mongolians that say, he was brutal … an outsider … He had no business to even hold that much power.”
Leonie wants to use the attention her videos have brought on Ungern to delve into her family’s archives and learn more.
“He’s such a complex historical figure that you can’t just box him up and make him out to be one person,” she said.
“He’s more complex than that.”
“I posted that video and I went to sleep,” Leonie told The Post. “And the next day I woke up and I had a million views, which for me was surreal.”
While much of the attention was lighthearted, some of it was extreme.
That included far-right fanatics aligned with Roman’s ultra-nationalist ideology, and those condemning her as guilty by association for Ungern’s crimes.
“I feel like I’m a case study on how a viral video can bring unwanted attention from ideologies that I personally don’t align with,” she said.
“I’ve gotten a lot of comments … a lot of sexism … racism,” she added.
Despite the “scary” experience, Leonie still carries her name with “pride and honor,” because of her “amazing family members,” she said.
“My great-grandparents got murdered by the Nazis for helping Jews flee the country,” she said, adding how “shocking” and “hurtful” it was to see her name taken up as a cause by extremists.
Leonie’s video also got comments from users in Mongolia, where attitudes toward Ungern are mixed.
“A lot of Mongolians say, ‘In our home, [Ungern’s] a hero.’ There are some that say, ‘Without [Ungern], we would possibly belong to China right now,'” she said.
“On the other hand, there are also a lot of Mongolians that say, he was brutal … an outsider … He had no business to even hold that much power.”
Leonie wants to use the attention her videos have brought on Ungern to delve into her family’s archives and learn more.
“He’s such a complex historical figure that you can’t just box him up and make him out to be one person,” she said.
“He’s more complex than that.”
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