@Zeb When the Bolsheviks seized power in Petrograd on Oct. 25, 1917, the vast majority of Russia’s Jews opposed that takeover.

Five years later, when the USSR was created at the end of a treacherously bloody civil war, the situation was reversed

—not, as the Hebrew cliché has it, out of the love of Mordecai, but out of hatred of Haman.

Why Did Russian Jews Support the Bolshevik Revolution?
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/why-did-russian-jews-support-the-bolshevik-revolution