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Suppressing the numerous rebellions, which bloodstained the XIX century Poland, the tsarist government for political reasons, spared the Warsaw Jews, and they have shown, in terms of the rebels, excessive loyalty to the authorities, in addition, staying away from opposition, they were able to maintain and even increase their trade turnover in a country ravaged by repressions. This historical fact had great influence on the development of anti-Jewish sentiment in Poland. However, studying the story more closely, we find in it a vicious circle. Tsarist officials did not cause harm to the Jews in Poland, but, at the same time, they organized anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia. These different patterns of behavior have common cause: the Russian government believed that the Jews in Russia and in Poland are unable to assimilate and, following the needs of their policies, organized the mass killings of Jews in Moscow and Kiev (in order to strengthen the empire), in Warsaw, tsarist government patronized the Jews to maintain the discord among the Poles, who, in contrast, showed only hatred and contempt towards Polish Jewry, but the reason was the same: the Jews were unable to integrate into society.
After the outbreak of WWII, the paranoid Stalin, saw in Poles his potential enemies, and actively persecuted them. Hundreds of Thousand of Poles were sent to Siberia. During this period, many Jews, that for long times were denied employment opportunities, welcomed the change in government and became functionaries of the new regime.
It is true that Poles actively helped the Germans, by denouncing the Jews hiding under assumed Polish identity, catching the hiding Jews and delivering them to the Germans, or killing them outright. Some Polish underground organization like the NSZ, existed for the sole purpose of killing the Jews hiding in the forest.