Żydokomuna

Żydokomuna (Polish neologism for "Jewish communism") term used to express the opinion that Communism in Poland was supported by Jews to a much greater extent than by the Gentile Polish population. Any Communist group which was considered dominated by Jews counted as "Żydokomuna". The term is similar to the "Judeo-bolshevism" rhetoric of Nazi Germany.

The term has been used from the time of Polish-Soviet War, when the Bolsheviks were supported in Poland by a disproportionately large number of Jews. The 1918-1938 Communist Party of Poland was unpopular among the Polish; and often considered treasonous due to their support for Soviets during the Polish-Soviet War. Thus, Jewish minorities were strongly overrepresented, and according to some estimates 53% of the party central authorities were Jewish, compared to 10% Jews in the general population.

After the Second World War the Communist government had little support among the people, and had to rely on opportunists, Soviet immigrants and Jews, many of them former members of the Communist Party of Poland. In particular, the much detested Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (UB, Ministry of Public Security, Polish secret police) was disproportionately Jewish. 29% of UB personal from Chief of Department up was Jewish (most of them pre-war members of CPP), in spite of very few Jews being left in Poland after Holocaust (numbers as estimated by professor Andrzej Paczkowski). Many Jews moved as 'polityczny' with Red Army^6 thus the level of Jewish control was even higher.

Joseph Stalin famously remarked that “introducing Communism in Poland was like putting a saddle on a cow” (Davies 2005). This apparently led to the process of bringing in the entire leadership of the Soviet-style security apparatus from inside Russia, in form of Jews who had no links to Poland, no understanding of situation there, and who often could not even speak Polish. “All or nearly all of the directors were Jewish” (Toranska 1987) but the fact would be denied by official sources, according to which the Ministry of Security employed only one Jewish officer, presumably Jakub Berman himself. The Ministry of Security attracted “all manner of misfits and hoodlums” (Davies 2005). The head of the Ministry was Jakub Berman (1901-84), a pre-war lawyer, who reached Poland with the Soviet Army. He was the brother of Adolf Berman (1904-78), who chaired the post-war Central Committee of Polish Jews before heading off for a political career in Israel (Davies 2005).

Chodakiewicz (2003) argues that violence developed after the Soviet takeover of Poland amid postwar retribution and counter-retribution and was exacerbated by the breakdown of law and order and a raging Polish anti-Communist insurgency. Meanwhile, Jewish Communists fought to establish a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist regime. Some Jewish avengers endeavored to extract justice from Poles who allegedly harmed Jews during the War and in some cases Jews attempted to reclaim property confiscated by the Nazis. These phenomena reinforced the stereotype of Żydokomuna, a Jewish-Communist state conspiracy, and Poles reacted with information spreading.

Jewish numbers in Communist structures gradually fell with time, with more Poles joining the Communist party and with the Mieczysław Moczar's "anti-zionist" fraction in the Polish communist party becoming increasingly influential, the Urząd Bezpieczeństwa being renamed, and some remaining Jews leaving Poland to build Izrael, after the March 1968 events. At this time travel from Poalnd abroad as rejected for most of Poles, but large grup of Jews was permited to go out even with foreigin money and possesion.

Term żydokomuna usage usually refers to former members of the Communist Party and Jewish "liberals" that support capitalist reforms, globalization, and European integration. The paradoxial fact that communist suport pryvatization may be easily explained by term "uwłaszczenie nomenklatury", when comunist aparatczyk take over or privatize the common possesion, sometime disgusted as sale. During that time organizations often called Żydokomuna were SLD and UW political parties, and Gazeta Wyborcza daily newspaper. Żydokomunist work in tandem with spay agents whicz show current lustracja and final abolischment of WSI

It should be noted that the "Jews" involved in Żydokomuna were predominantly highly secular and often atheist, and the term and the phenomenon have little to do with either Jews or Judaism.

• "Jews" involved in Żydokomuna :

Jakub Berman, Hilary Minc, Roman Zambrowski, Adam Schaff, Ozjasz Szechter, Stefan Michnik, Adam Michnik, Salomon Morel, Helena Wolińska-Brus(Fajga Mindla Danielak), Jerzy Borejsza (Beniamin Goldberg), Julia Brystygier, Natan Brystygier, Anatol Fejgin, Jan Frey-Bielecki, Szymon Harnam (Szaja Charnam), Wacław Komar (Mendel Kossoj) ,Rosa Luxemburg, Józef Światło (Izaak Fleischfarb), Leon Jurowski (Józef Unszlicht), genRoman Romkowski(Natan Grunspan-Kikiel), gen Mieczyslaw Mietkowski(Mojzesz Bobrowicki), gen Wiktor Grosz (Izaak Medres) , gen Leszek Krzemien (Maksymilian Wolf), Roman Werfel, Jerzy Borejsza (Beniamin Borejsza ), plk Jan Rutkowski, plk Stefan Kuhl, plk E Zadrzynski, plk Aleksander Kokoszyn , plk Ignacy Krzemien, plk Jerzy Fonkowicz,plk Jozef Rozanski, , pplk Wincenty Klupinski, Jelene Kaminska (Lea Kantorowicz), Aleksander Leonowicz (Icchak Gordon), Natalia Krawczynk( Nechama Feigenbaum), Jozef Feigenbaum Osip Krawczynk (Nechama Feigenbaum), Hanna Turska (Chana Milsztajn), Motke Hajman (Mikolaj Wojnarowicz), Antoni Alster (Nachym Alster), Leon Andrzejewski (Lajb-Wolf Ajzen), Julia Brystygier (Julia Brustiger), Jozefe Rozanski (Jozef Goldberg), Roman Zambrowski (Rubin Nussbaum), Bronisław Geremek, Jerzy Urban(Jerzy Urbach)

See also

• Jewish Bolshevism
• Zionist-Occupied Government
• Kielce pogrom
• Bund
• History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union: Jews and Bolshevism

References

• 1 Template:Pl icon August Grabski, "Działalność komunistów wśród Żydów w Polsce (1944-1949)", Trio, Warszawa 2004, ISBN 8388542877
• 2 Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, "After the Holocaust Polish-Jewish Conflict in the Wake of World War II", Columbia University Press, New York 2003, ISBN 0-88033-511-4
• 3 Norman Davies, "God’s Playground – A History of Poland, Columbia University Press, New York 1982, ISBN 0-231-04327-9
• 4 Norman Davies, "God’s Playground – A History of Poland (revised edition), Columbia University Press, New York 2005, ISBN 0-231-12819-3
• 5 Teresa Toranska, Them: Stalin's Polish Puppets, Harper & Row, New York 1987, ISBN 0060156570

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• Michlic, Joanna. Assistant Professor. “Zydokomuna-Anti-Jewish Images and Political Tropes in Modern Poland.” Simon Dubnow Yearbook 4 (2005): 303-329.