Japan is divided like Germany, What happens to Sakhalin?

[Edwin Moore]

IOTL 400,000 japanese were removed from the Karafuto prefecture in Sakhalin after WW2.
If for some reason, the war ends with the Soviets occupying Northern Japan in addition to Manchuria and North Korea, would they still relocate these people? Or would some of Sakhalin be included in a Soviet puppet Japan?

In other words, would a soviet puppet state in the Japanese home islands include any of Sakhalin, or would Karafuto be treated like East Prussia?

 

[Khanzeer]

Rightfully ussr should keep it
I see no point in giving it to north japan

 

[Edwin Moore]

Rightfully ussr should keep it
I see no point in giving it to north japan

Do you think they would still relocate all those people then?

 

[Analytical Engine]

Do you think they would still relocate all those people then?

This is Stalin's USSR we're talking about.

 

[Snowstalker]

Why wouldn't the USSR still annex it?

 

[Deleted member 109224]

The Soviets didn't let East Germany keep East Prussia. Why would they let Japan keep Sakhalin?

I wouldn't put it past the Soviets to annex Hokkaido.

 

[anotherlurker]

Are there enough people for an independent Ainu state?

 

[Belarus-Chan]

Toyohara is going back to being Yuzhno-Sahalinsk even if all of Japan becomes a soviet puppet. Since the 1945 offensive was basically seen as revenge for the Russo-Japanese War, I don't see why the Soviets wouldn't use the opportunity to reverse all their losses.