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In the days following the results of the 2016 American presidential election, I actively searched for places to express my frustration as a young American socialist living abroad who was frankly devastated by the election results. I was overjoyed to find one Facebook group made up of Bernie Sanders supporters who wanted a place to […]

I’m from the global South, so I don’t know minute details in the western history that well. Yes, this post should have gone under a political community, but since I’m interested in the history, I believe that this is the right place to post them.

I am interested in this part of the article:

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, this town’s population was 80 percent Jewish at the start of the twentieth century. In contrast, at the start of World War II, only 26 percent of the town was Jewish, after Jews fled or were imprisoned and killed in gulags. Devastatingly, the remainder of the Jewish population was killed in one mass slaughter by the Nazis in 1942.

However, from this Wikipedia page:

…in the 1930s the Jews were underrepresented in the Gulag population

Not just that, but according to this page mentions how most of the pogroms were carried out by the ASFR army and UNA, although the Green and Red army were also complicit to some extent.

Anything else I should be looking out for?

  • velox_vulnusOPEnglish
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    4 months ago

    There’s some information about it, but that’s just part of it, and so I believe that it could be misleading. From what I’ve read, Jewish population actually increased in imperial Russia. They were restricted to live in Pale of Settlement. During the Tsarist regime, there were also multiple waves of pogroms, leading to death and migration.

    Interestingly, there’s also a page on Jewish Bolshevism and Economic antisemitism. From what I know, there’s no information about pogroms after 1921.