Post by stevep on May 9, 2019 22:15:28 GMT
Well given the terrain and the degree to which Russia was nerfed by the civil war anyway its quite possible that if the Japanese had decided to stay in the region it could have lasted as an anti-Soviet Japanese protectorate. There's a region, I think its just west of Irkutsk [possibly a bit to the east, can't remember for sure] where other than one narrow section of a mountain pass there's no way through other than by literally several hundred miles of wilderness to the proposed FER and the Japanese can use the Amur river to greatly aid their logistics.
Very true, pretty much all of eastern Siberia. Not a lot of population, although your likely to see a lot trying to flee the communists so probably something of a surge demographically. However a bloody large area and a fair bit of mineral wealth, even at that date.
