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The Holocaust and the Holocaust
In Poland and Romania, the communists would often specifically select Jews who had lost their families to wartime atrocities. They would find those people specifically and then put them in posts such as Interior Minister. On an individual level, it is hard to begrudge a Jewish victim, his desire for vengeance after World War II. But when a government adopts this kind of thing as policy, as a means of governing a country by terror, you can understand what it is that they're really trying to accomplish by it.