Russification and Antisemtism

After Sweden release the Pale, the Jews after the genocide committed in the Rhine during the Crusaders, the invitation by the Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia (Krakow--today) in the 12 century, as European tradition, the used the Jews to developed an underdeveloped zone, through the history of Galicia the Jews lived poorly, working in small shops and as craftsmen as carpenters, hat makers, jewelers and opticians in one point 80 % of the tailors in Galicia a population of 2.6 Million. After Galicia become part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, even during Polish-Commonwealth, driven as ideal of different ethnic groups and this ideal was maintain for practically by the Sweden.

When the territory which cover the Baltics to Ukraine, the German Princess Sophie Friderike von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dorburg (Catherine) from Stettin Pomerina Prussia, educated in German tradition of Authoritarian and Despotic rule introduced Russification, the consequences to the Jews was to limiting the area of leaving, while, the first Russification was Khate of Kazan (Medieval Tatar) which meant Christianization and Russian.    

For the Jews Russification meant, Alexander II Jews could not own land or hire Russians and Alexander III, the Jews where to serve in the Russian Army for 20 years, if the convert could become officers if not under Priest supervision where send to the Urals.

The pogroms of 1881 due to the fact the Russian Authorities blame the Jews for the assassination of Alexander II, by the Russian Nikolai Ryakov member of Narodnaya Voyla. For eastern Europe Russification encourage the first Nationalism as reaction, for Poland, Lithuania and Belarusian, languages was suppress, in 1864 in Poland and Belarus, the languages was suppress in public area and in Lithuania the ban was lifted in 1904.

For the Russian Orthodox church, being the state religion meant the Polish, Lithuania Catholic was suppressed, small things like Julian Calendar was change to the Gregorian Calendar, but this when to Ukraine, Finland, Moldova and Central Europe.

The Russian Antisemitism took place with the forgery by the Czar secret Police of the Protocol of Zion, and for Baltics and Ukraine a xenophobic nationalism. Today, the Russification take place putting trying to control Ukraine and Medvedev offer the old Stalinist solution to the Jews question a Autonomous  region close to the Border to China, never the least the Crimean Tatars, send by Stalin to Siberia, as exile for helping Nazi German in WW II.