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[[File: | [[File:9ff2f72b-2a06-4b23-919e-7afc5ec9671c.jpg.pagespeed.ce.43wdTOrjq-.jpg|thumb|300px|right|A mass grave containing victims of the 1946 Kielce pogrom in Kielce, Poland.]] | ||
A '''pogrom''' is a violent massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews. The term, a Yiddish variation on a Russian word meaning "thunder", originally entered the English language to describe 19th and 20th-century massacres of Jews perpetrated by Tsar [[Nicholas II]] in the Russian Empire; similar attacks against Jews at other times and places also became retrospectively known as pogroms. The word is now also sometimes used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish ethnic or religious groups. | A '''pogrom''' is a violent massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews. The term, a Yiddish variation on a Russian word meaning "thunder", originally entered the English language to describe 19th and 20th-century massacres of Jews perpetrated by Tsar [[Nicholas II]] in the Russian Empire; similar attacks against Jews at other times and places also became retrospectively known as pogroms. The word is now also sometimes used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish ethnic or religious groups. | ||