Why have Tsarism and antisemitism always been so closely connected?

Why have Tsarism and antisemitism always been so closely connected?

Because when you wield absolute power in a country you learn who is trying to undermine it.

The Tsarist regime was inefficient when it came to addressing the practical concerns of everyday people (i.e. famine relief), and there's no better outlet for dissatisfaction in history than the jews

Why has a Jewish presence and antisemitism always been so closely connected?

> and there's no better outlet for dissatisfaction in history than the jews

Jews dindu nuffin ever, the 2000 years of persecution and antisemitism is all scapegoating.

Because they knew of the judeo-German conspiracy to ruin Europe.

There were some Jewish guys named Lenin and Trotsky and they did not care for the Tsar very much. They spouted unfounded falsehoods about them.

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no wonder the germans fucked them over with jewish communism

They aren't really.
Historically, every country except for Poland and later France hated the Jews.

Then why isn't Putin antisemitic?

Lenin wasn't Jewish

One of his grandparents was an ethnic Jew who converted to Christianity and concealed his heritage from his descendants, but this wasn't even discovered until after he died.

The rest of his ancestry is all Christian, a mix of Swedes and Slavs probably with some Tatar or Mongol ancestry farther back

Why have communism and autism always been so closely related?

Progroms were good for morale. Outsiders are good scapegoats.

jews are weirdos and its easy to point them out and scapegoat them. also, the real hassidic ones are basically muslims in terms of how they treat marriage, relationships, and children, so that probably clashed a lot with the more christian russians, who were also dumb rednecks for the most part, which only made the problem worse. Even jews who integrated well into a western type society were targeted

Fun Fact: Lenin was more German than he was jewish

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He's presumably studied enough history to realize wholesale persecution of entire ethnic groups tends to make them want to overthrow you.

That's why so many Jews sided with the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution. The Tsar's government had oppressed directly them or had ignored their being victimized by mob violence for centuries and when Lenin seized power, they saw a chance to finally gain some form of equality and protection.

As much as we in the West all love to make fun of Russia for being an economic wasteland post-Communism, the current Russian government is probably the best they've ever enjoyed in terms of civil liberties and transparency.

This is the best answer. Generate revenue and give your subjects and external enemy

answer is obvious

I'm sure you'll be able to provide plenty of examples of them doin sumfin?

What's the difference?