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Kanske är det en form av avundsjuka och kulturell revanschism som ligger i botten?
Det Judiska bosättningsområdet i Kejsardömet Ryssland, "Pale of Settlement" särbehandlade judar på ett sätt som jag tror faktisk ligger bakom mycket av dagens tankemönster i den gruppen.
Från Wiki: (Ja jag vet men det är enklast så)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement
a western region of Imperial Russia with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917 in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish residency, permanent or temporary, was mostly forbidden. Most Jews were still excluded from residency in a number of cities within the Pale as well. A few Jews were allowed to live outside the area, including those with university education, the ennobled, members of the most affluent of the merchant guilds and particular artisans, some military personnel and some services associated with them, including their families, and sometimes their servants.Resultatet av att de inte fick bo städerna utan utbildning innebar att de utbildade sig och sedan hatade landsbygden då det symboliserar mer eller mindre livegenskap. De strömningarna känner vi igen idag.
The Pale of Settlement included all of modern day Belarus, Lithuania and Moldova, much of Ukraine and Poland, and relatively small parts of Latvia and western Russian Federation, roughly corresponding to the Kresy macroregion of RussiaDet är inte många generationer bort. När de "släpptes ut" tog de för sig och såg antagligen nästan alla andra vanliga medborgare i först Ryssland och sedan Sovjet med misstänksamhet och som motståndare. Speciellt fria bönder. De var dessutom vita.
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Life in the Pale for many was economically bleak. Most people relied on small service or artisan work that could not support the number of inhabitants, which resulted in emigration, especially in the late 19th century. Even so, Jewish culture, especially in Yiddish, developed in the shtetls (small villages), and intellectual culture developed in the yeshiva (religious schools) and were also carried abroad.
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At its height, the Pale, including the new Polish and Lithuanian territories, had a Jewish population of over five million, and represented the largest component (40 percent) of the world Jewish population at that time The freedom of movement of non-Jewish Russians was greatly increased, but the freedom of movement of Jews was greatly restricted and officially kept within the boundaries of the pale
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The end of the enforcement and formal demarcation of the Pale coincided with the beginning of World War I in 1914 and then ultimately, the fall of the Russian Empire in the February and October Revolutions of 1917.
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Subsequently, most of the Jewish population of the area would perish in the Holocaust one generation later.
För dem var gränser något hemskt då de inte alls fått resa.
Vi ser resultatet av detta fortfarande i rådande politiska strömningar.
De söker fortfarande revansch för gångna tiders oförrätter.
De glömmer lätt att de inte är de enda offren för historiens nycker.