1. Birobidzhan
... area seems to have been done not only because the settlers were to be Jewish but simply just to get any population in the eastern Soviet Union. The reasons behind a desire to populate the east, was the fear of Japanese expansion into the area (19). Logistical problems in the Russo-Japanese war had convinced the government of the need to create ... Birobidzhan, both from the government perspective and the Jewish perspective. In late 1931 the seizure of Manchuria by Japan, placed Birobidzhan perilously close to Japanese forces, furthering the Soviet governments desire to populate the east...
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