Russian Terrorities as Post-WWI Mandates?

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It's tough to see on the map but few know of the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War.

In a nutshell, British, French, American, and Japanese troops were set to occupy rather large chunks of Russia to both stabilize armament trade with the White Russian Troops as well as prevent the Bolshevik Red Army from taking eye ports and land border regions.

UK: Occupied Baku/Georgia Region

US: Occupied Arkhangelsk w/ British & French Forces & Vladivostok region

Japan: Occupied Sakhalin Island & Vladivostok Region w/ US Forces

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My question is what if after the growing failure of the White Russian forces, the Allies decide to keep and incorporate these occupied territories into the League of Nation Mandate system?

UK: Gets Baku Region mandate

France: Gets Arkhangelsk mandate

US: Gets Vladivostok/East Siberian mandate

Japan: Gets Sakhalin Island and Kurl Islands mandate

How plausible is this?

What could be the long term effects?

Could other territories be included?

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The problem with this idea is that the idea of the league of nations mandates was that some where to be built up into independent nations, the class A mandates, Or ruled as a colony or integral part of the new ruler's territory, B and C respectively.

Meanwhile with Russian mandates they'll eventually have to give them back, no government in Moscow would be willing to allow foreign troops to control the most vital ports in the Russian Empire and with the exception of the Japanese, no one would be willing to fight a war for these territories. The logistics versus the Russian's make it a dicey prospect, and they've just come out of WW1 so they people of the allied nations are unlikely to back a prolonged conflict to hold onto these mandates.

So really the reasons they pulled out in OTL mean that this won't work.
 
Well certainly some cossack nations could have been propped up in such a case right? Especially if territory around the caspian were included as a mandate
 
Well certainly some cossack nations could have been propped up in such a case right? Especially if territory around the caspian were included as a mandate

The Russians would still want them back and once the dust of the civil war has settled they'll be easily isolated and be doing most of their trade with whoever has come out on top in the war.

To supply it with arms, or station troops there the allies have to take them over some fairly rugged land in Persia and Turkey or through the Caucasus region, which could quickly come back under Russian control and then sail them across the Caspian sea, where they have no warships to escort them but the Russians have their Caspian Flotilla.
 
Well certainly some cossack nations could have been propped up in such a case right? Especially if territory around the caspian were included as a mandate

Shame Leopold II of Belgium wasn't alive anymore back then, sure he would have been a candidate!
 
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