The occupation was to be managed with extraordinary brutality , typical of Japanese conduct in China and elsewhere during the war . In general , it envisioned the displacement of the native population to make room for a projected influx of Japanese , Korean , and Manchu settlers . Given instructions to use " strictly real force , without sinking to the so-called principle of moderation , " the Japanese Army authorities were to annihilate the subject Soviet population with the survivors either converted into forced labor to exploit the raw materials of the region or exiled into the frozen wastelands of the north . All pre-existing institutions were to be completely abolished and the Communist ideology outlawed and replaced with Japanese propaganda . To create , if possible , a façade of self-governance , a number of former White Movement figures ( including Grigory Semyonov ) were hand-picked to manage puppet government positions under the Japanese
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