Poland’s invitation for immigrants to come attracted Jews who were fleeing massacres in central Europe in the wake of the Crusades and the Black Death. Jews settled throughout Poland, including in territories that form present-day Ukraine, most notably the region of Volhynia, which lies at the intersection of Poland, Belarus and Ukraine. By the 1400s, up to 30,000 Jews were thought to be living in 60 different communities across Ukraine, including in the present day capital city, Kiev.
A disproportionate number of oligarchs are Jewish and the west freezing their assets is an anti-semitic act. It's theft from Jews of Russian extraction like any old days that used to to take money away from Jews and the expulsions and pogroms.
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