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In reply to the discussion: As missiles strike Ukraine, Israel won't sell its vaunted air defense [View all]SunSeeker
(57,017 posts)Some basic history:
Pogroms began to occur after Imperial Russia, which previously had very few Jews, acquired territories with large Jewish populations from the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire from 1772 to 1815. These territories were designated "the Pale of Settlement" by the Imperial Russian government, within which Jews were reluctantly permitted to live, and it was within them where the pogroms largely took place. The Pale of Settlement included all of modern-day Belarus, Lithuania and Moldova, much of Ukraine and east-central Poland, and small parts of Latvia and Russia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement#:~:text=The%20Pale%20of%20Settlement%20included,now%20the%20western%20Russian%20Federation. Historians such as Edward Radzinsky suggest that many pogroms were incited by authorities and supported by the Tsarist Russian secret police (the Okhrana), even if some happened spontaneously. The perpetrators who were prosecuted usually received clemency by Tsar's decree. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogroms_in_the_Russian_Empire
A chaotic period of warfare ensued in Ukraine qafter the Russian Revolution of 1917. The SovietUkrainian War (19171921) followed, in which the Bolshevik Red Army established control of Ukraine in late 1919. Russia then went on a killing spree in Ukraine, not just of Jews, but of millions of Ukrainian peasants. In 1932 and 1933, millions of people, mostly peasants, in Ukraine starved to death in a devastating famine, known as Holodomor. It is estimated that 6 to 8 million people died from hunger in the Soviet Union during this period, of whom 4 to 5 million were Ukrainians. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ukraine
Are you seriously blaming pogroms on Ukraine and not Russia?