Projected White Russian state in Outer Manchuria

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A White Russian state had a short potential or virtual existence during the Pacific War, in Outer Manchuria. The foundation of this political entity in the Soviet Far East was possibly led by Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky and General Kislistin, under orders of the Japanese Kwantung Army. There had been a Japanese administration in Baikal, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok and Kamchatka, during the extended Japanese intervention after the Russian Revolution and lasting 1918-1927. The White Russian state shared features with the Far Eastern Republic.

The excuse for this political entity was to establish order in Siberia, in the event of a Soviet defeat at the hands of the Axis Powers; and to prevent US aid to the Soviets. Kwantung Army commanders, faced with the Red Army detachment in Far East, "easy prey" as they thought under these conditions, expected its total defeat in December 1941. At the same time, this area would serve as a springboard for further anti-Stalinist efforts.

Plans, originating indeed during 1929-1939 Russo-Japanese Incidents, were taken up once more in the 1941-1943 period, during (Operation Barbarossa), as German forces arrived on the Volga river, at the end of July 1941, the time previously chosen for operations in the area. The project was definitively stopped after Germany's Stalingrad defeat in 1943.