Soviet *Hokkaido, Commie North Japan or the partition of Japan into occupation zones have been tried before many times but this time I want to consider this particular scenario with a POD after Japanese capitulation:
- Even tho at the time of Japanese capitulation MacArthur was willing to occupy Japan whole and Hokkaido is considered one of the Home Islands, now that the Oder-Neisse Line was drawn up and the partition of Germany went apace, Truman (or someone in his admin) invited the Soviets to Hokkaido, the Chinese to Kyushu and Britain to Chugoku and Shikoku, to take some burden off MacArthur himself. This wasn't exactly the partition plan drawn up during the war since I've shifted the occupation zones around and the 2 main cities would remain fully American. China refused in order to concentrate against Communists, so Britain also took over Kyushu.
- Stalin decided against making a go of northern Honshu. Ethnic cleansing of Japanese started immediately in Soviet-occupied Hokkaido, with ~3.5M Japanese leaving Hokkaido, while anyone with a proven Ainu lineage or Communist sympathies were allowed to remain. 1-2 million Slavs, assorted nationalities and deported minorities (especially those originally from European & Caucasian Soviet Union) settled in what would become the Mosir Ainu ASSR of the Russian SFSR. Japanese culture became as repressed as German culture was under the Soviets while Ainu culture was promoted in a sanitized socialist form.
- In ~1952 the American and British zones reunited to form post-war Japan. Japan was forced to renounce the claim over Hokkaido, just as Germany OTL eventually did with everything East of Oder-Neisse in 1990. Eventually some Japanese leftists could immigrate to Mosir as both a symbolic gesture and practical sheltering of anti-Capitalist dissidents against American-allied Japan. Mosir was now a second Kazakh SSR where the titular nationality was microscopic, vastly outnumbered by Russians and Russified populations.
- Mosir is retained by Russia after the end of Cold War (doesn't have to be at the same time as OTL) just as Kaliningrad Oblast remains with Russia, and made a(n ethnic) Republic of the Russian Federation of both Ainus and Japanese, recognizing that Japan started to settle Mosir before the Meiji Restoration. Japanese culture is still degraded below the Ainu one and they now massively emigrate southwards. As with the rest of Russian Far-East, Russians and Russified populations move west or anywhere abroad that they can secure immigration visas of.
Is this too ASB? How would Mosir fare in the Soviet Union and Russia (probably worse than in OTL Japan)? The Ainus with their culture promoted but socially as repressed as everyone else in the Soviet Union?
Obligatory note: I do not condone any ethnic cleansing/genocide, and please keep CP discussions including any related to Russia's OTL conduct to Chat.
- Even tho at the time of Japanese capitulation MacArthur was willing to occupy Japan whole and Hokkaido is considered one of the Home Islands, now that the Oder-Neisse Line was drawn up and the partition of Germany went apace, Truman (or someone in his admin) invited the Soviets to Hokkaido, the Chinese to Kyushu and Britain to Chugoku and Shikoku, to take some burden off MacArthur himself. This wasn't exactly the partition plan drawn up during the war since I've shifted the occupation zones around and the 2 main cities would remain fully American. China refused in order to concentrate against Communists, so Britain also took over Kyushu.
- Stalin decided against making a go of northern Honshu. Ethnic cleansing of Japanese started immediately in Soviet-occupied Hokkaido, with ~3.5M Japanese leaving Hokkaido, while anyone with a proven Ainu lineage or Communist sympathies were allowed to remain. 1-2 million Slavs, assorted nationalities and deported minorities (especially those originally from European & Caucasian Soviet Union) settled in what would become the Mosir Ainu ASSR of the Russian SFSR. Japanese culture became as repressed as German culture was under the Soviets while Ainu culture was promoted in a sanitized socialist form.
- In ~1952 the American and British zones reunited to form post-war Japan. Japan was forced to renounce the claim over Hokkaido, just as Germany OTL eventually did with everything East of Oder-Neisse in 1990. Eventually some Japanese leftists could immigrate to Mosir as both a symbolic gesture and practical sheltering of anti-Capitalist dissidents against American-allied Japan. Mosir was now a second Kazakh SSR where the titular nationality was microscopic, vastly outnumbered by Russians and Russified populations.
- Mosir is retained by Russia after the end of Cold War (doesn't have to be at the same time as OTL) just as Kaliningrad Oblast remains with Russia, and made a(n ethnic) Republic of the Russian Federation of both Ainus and Japanese, recognizing that Japan started to settle Mosir before the Meiji Restoration. Japanese culture is still degraded below the Ainu one and they now massively emigrate southwards. As with the rest of Russian Far-East, Russians and Russified populations move west or anywhere abroad that they can secure immigration visas of.
Is this too ASB? How would Mosir fare in the Soviet Union and Russia (probably worse than in OTL Japan)? The Ainus with their culture promoted but socially as repressed as everyone else in the Soviet Union?
Obligatory note: I do not condone any ethnic cleansing/genocide, and please keep CP discussions including any related to Russia's OTL conduct to Chat.
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