The declaration of the Russian Republic, a liberal-vanguardist regime ideologically modeled after Kuhara's one-party state, by the Caucasian warlord Viktor Pepelyayev circa May 1953 and the subsequent outbreak of the Russian Civil War proved to be the turning point of the Asian Theater, with Kuhara overseeing the final defeat of Russian forces in Siberia and later ratifying a peace agreement with Pepelyayev's Republican regime
