https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borki_train_disaster#Investigation
In the preceding years, [Sergei] Witte had been regularly involved in managing imperial train journeys across his railroad and was well known to the tsar. Two months before the crash, Alexander, upset about Witte's insistence on reducing train speed limits, had publicly chastised him and his railway, referring to its owners' ethnicity:
Nowhere else has my speed been reduced; your railroad is an impossible one because it is a Jewish road.
According to Witte, he had warned the government earlier of the deficiencies in train setup, notably using paired steam engines and faulty saloon cars.
A hysterically funny thing to me personally is whenever I read about right wingers prior to 1945, they would always accuse other people of being jews. It comes out of nowhere every time and it sort of cracks me up, because I genuinely cannot imagine people doing that today. Granted, today they just use other words to amean the same thing, but it's probably the bluntness that tickles me.
Americans today accuse me of being russian 20 times per week. It's exactly the same behaviour.
They would also accuse them of being Jewish communists/Bolsheviks.
They've since swapped it to "Islamo-communist" and "woke"
Yeah, but like, I'm reading a long-ass book about Franco's Spain, and one of the things that the Spanish Right would do in the leadup to the Civil War was just the Spanish oligarchs denouncing various people as jews. That author at least, didn't make it sound like it "spanish right accuses others of being secret bolsheviks" but more liken "spanish right reinvents inquisition and accuses random catholics of secretly being jewish / jews", with the implications that being jewish was the crime these people committed.
Oooh, a recommendation? What's the title? Is it any good? Thanks comrade!
A People Betrayed by Paul Preson. It details a long story of Spain and it's politics from around the time of the Spanish-American War and until the fall of Franco I believe. The lead up to the civil war is incredibly long and detailed, and I think it's about 300 pages before you even get to the civil war, and then 20 pages of war, before it goes deep into post-war politics under Franco. I'm not even halfway and it's really good, albeit it's REALLY fucking detailed, and it makes you hate everyone that has ever been a right winger with a burning passion, if you don't already.
Edit: Should probably add, this book was recommended highly on GenZedong back when that sub was still pretty active, and it was recommended with the caveat that the author isn't a socialist or a marxist, but he is still really good at understanding how structural contradictions drive society. Apparently the author isn't all too charitable to the Spanish socialist movement, but all I've seen so far is the fact that he blames the Republican's own infighting for the poor performance of the left/center in the civil war. Which isn't too much of a stretch to argue, I would say.
Thank you! I'll check it out
Neo-nazis are still on the "accuse anyone we don't like of being Jewish" train. They bust out the calipers and rulers to measure people's noses and get into struggle sessions over it.
I'm not kidding: any woman in an interracial relationship or who does sex work is seen as being secretly Jewish and they get into arguments over how large her nose is and if you find her attractive you must be secretly gay because she's obviously trans and....
the raving imperialists who ran the anglo newspaper empire (the magnate behind the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror basically bought all English newspapers --- also thought he was Napoleon reincarnated and looked like the lovechild of churchill and hitler) when drumming up support for WWI called anti-war and neutrality efforts something like "a dirty German-Jewish plot of international finance to bully us into neutrality".
Then a decade and a half later they published as genuine the Protocols of the Elders of Zion forgery.
European racism is a fascinating thing.
Okhrana even published a test balloon earlier in Russian part of Poland, accusing Jews of plot to exterminate Slavs in the Wisła valley by... building sewers in Warsaw. It did increased antisemitism locally so then they worked on Protocols. Though the sewers were build because it was nearly 700000 city with no sewers whatsoever.
Southpark trying to bring it back