100,000 Jews were killed in pogroms between 1918 and 1921.
And yes, the purges were absolutely about Jews. They just hid their antisemitism by focusing on Zionism as the target (sound familiar?). But it was nothing but good old antisemitism: The Jews are a threat to Communist Russia because they’re greedy cosmopolitan capitalists.
100,000 Jews were killed in pogroms between 1918 and 1921. And yes, the purges were absolutely about Jews. They just hid their antisemitism by focusing on Zionism as the target (sound familiar?). But it was nothing but good old antisemitism: The Jews are a threat to Communist Russia because they’re greedy cosmopolitan capitalists.