Koreans – The former Japanese citizens in a post-war Soviet control system on Southern Sakhalin (1945 – 1947)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the challenges of the vital device of the Korean population, which was left by Japanese on southern Sakhalin after the war. Based on archival documents features of introduction of the Soviet laws regulating a post-war life, character of mutual relations of time Japanese civil authorities and the Soviet military-civil control system, difficulty of food crisis, monetary the reference are shown. In the centre of attention are the questions of discrimination of the Korean population and international enmity on Sakhalin Koreans and Japanese, and also post-war repatriation.