Read posts #9, 11, 13.
Jews were integral part of Russian society for a thousand years.
And it is actually absolutely wrong to present antisemitism as an ethnic-Russian feature.
In fact antisemitism as any viable phenomenon has really appeared with including Poland as a subject of Russian Empire and it was actually learnt from backward element of Polish society.
Interesting fact: there are popular Russian-Jewish surnames Kamenev and Zinoviev. Both Kamen and Zinov were a towns on a border between Moscovia and Poland before a Russian Empire appeared. Moscovia was a popular destination for Jews seeking refuge from persecution in Europe. They had to pass through these towns and get documented by Russian officials and have their new names. Millions of people made through it since 16th century.
It also worth mentioning that some 90% of infamous ‘Russian’ pogroms happened in that is known as either Poland or Ukraine now.
It is also true that Tsarist government adopted Polish practice by late 19th century and openly encouraged pogroms using propaganda like ‘elders’ protocols’ etc. They fond it was a nice idea to blame the Jews for everything to distract illiterate population from their own mismanagement and corruption. It was a first wave of Russian state-sponsored antisemitism finished in 1917 with Communist takeover.
And for that very reason it is not surprising that the Jews spearheaded communist uprising against the Tsar and made almost 100% of Soviet government and elites. It hasn’t actually change much under Stalin who pushed to make antisemitism a capital crime under Soviet criminal code.
All of the above made German Nazis believe that Soviet Union was a kind of criminal enterprise of Jewish bosses who fooled Russians into slave labor using Communism to build industrial and military base for ‘Zionist conspiracy’ to start global takeover. This idea was even made public in famous ‘Total crieg’ speech by Goebels following Stalingrad disaster.
Another of only two waves of Russian state-sponsored antisemitism has actually started in late 1940s and finished in 1953. It is actually linked to a Stalin’s broken expectations to see Israel becoming a Socialist state.
IOW, you’re an apologist for Stalin and Soviet Communism, blaming Poland for Russian anti-semitism, and (in your last sentence) ISRAEL for Stalin’s anti-Jewish actions. Why are you even on FR?