Żydokomuna
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'''''''' (, Polish for "Judeo-Communism") is an anti-communist and antisemitic canard, or pejorative stereotype, suggesting that most Jews collaborated with the Soviet Union in importing communism into Poland, or that there was an exclusively Jewish conspiracy to do so. A Polish language term for "Jewish Bolshevism", or more literally "Jewish communism", Żydokomuna'' is related to the "Jewish world conspiracy" myth.
Key facts
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- Transparenty antyżydowskie brama Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.jpg
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- ONR banners over Warsaw University entrance, 1936. The lower reads "" ("Death to Judeo-Communism").
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- Judeopolonia
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- An antisemitic trope claiming that communism was a Jewish plot
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- Judeo–Bolshevism
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- Polish–Soviet War
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- Endecja propaganda
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Background
- History
- Origins
- Interwar period
- Invasion of Poland and the Soviet occupation zone
- Communist takeover of Poland in the aftermath of World War II
- Stalinist abuses
- 1968 expulsions
- Relation with other antisemitic beliefs
- See also
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Explanatory notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
'''''''' (, Polish for "Judeo-Communism") is an anti-communist and antisemitic canard, or pejorative stereotype, suggesting that most Jews collaborated with the Soviet Union in importing communism into Poland, or that there was an exclusively Jewish conspiracy to do so. A Polish language term for "Jewish Bolshevism", or more literally "Jewish communism", Żydokomuna'' is related to the "Jewish world conspiracy" myth.
The idea originated as anti-communist propaganda at the time of the Polish–Soviet War (1919–1920), and continued through the interwar period. It was based on longstanding antisemitic attitudes, coupled with a historical fear of Russia. Most of Poland's Jews supported the government controlled by Józef Piłsudski; after his death in 1935, rising levels of popular and state antisemitism pushed a small minority, several thousand at most, into participating in, or supporting, communist politics, which were relatively more welcoming to Jews. This was seized upon and inflated by antisemites.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Żydokomuna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.