Riots in western Russia were started by armed Jewish militants who disrupted Easter Sunday processions and rallies in favor of the monarchy.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The sources consistently describe the Easter-period riots in western Russia (Kishinev 1903, Elisavetgrad and Kiev 1881, Odessa) as pogroms, meaning anti-Jewish violence by mobs and drunken revelers, often with police inaction.
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… Even in what now is part of Romania, they were heavily armed. There's no such thing as a gun law, and the Russian Empire couldn't be enforced anyway, and most of the riots were started by them anytime, and I list from the Russian state archives, media at the time, example after example after example, where a procession, there was an Easter Sunday procession, that was disrupted by them. Any rally in favor of the monarchy or any church festival were met by hundreds of armed Jews who wanted to break it up, and when you're talking about fairly well-off cities like Odessa, for example, which was the Jewish capital of Ukraine for the longest time and the Jewish capital of the Russian Empire prior to the revolution, when you have a half a million Jews in a place …
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Contradicts. The Kishinev 1903 Easter riots began when teenagers antagonized Jews and drunken Easter revelers joined in, with the violence directed at Jewish homes and people, per the Study.com and EBSCO accounts.[2][3]
Contradicts. A primary 1903 document from the University of Oregon's Kishinev collection is a proclamation inciting Christians to join on Easter Day in a cry to massacre Jews, showing the riot was instigated against Jews rather than by them.[1]
Contradicts. Encyclopedia.com and Wikisource describe the 1881 Easter-season wave of riots across western Russia as mob attacks on Jewish homes and people, with agitators spreading blood libel and police doing nothing, not Jewish militants starting violence.[4][5]
Contradicts. Chabad.org and the Copernico history describe the pogroms as anti-Jewish violence that authorities condoned or failed to stop, and the Odessa pogrom record shows Easter-period riots against Jewish communities.[6][7][8]
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8 sources: 1 primary, 7 not rated
- 1pages.uoregon.edu · kimball · kishinevKishinev Pogroms - University of Oregonpages.uoregon.edu · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 2Pogroms in Russia: Kishinev & Odessastudy.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3Pogroms in Imperial Russia | Law | Research Startersebsco.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4Anti-Semitism in Russia - Encyclopedia.comencyclopedia.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 5Page:EB1911 - Volume 02.djvu/151 - Wikisource, the free online libraryen.wikisource.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 6The Oppression of Russia's Jews - Chabad.orgchabad.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 7Jewish History in Eastern Europe: The 19th Century - Copernico-Portalcopernico.eu · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 8Odessa pogroms - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
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