in the words morgenthau reports words : it is ... often asserted that the chiefs of the bolshevik movement in russia are jews of poland or lithuania and there is no doubt that they played a prominent part in the bolshevik government of such cities as vilna , lida , and minsk before the capture of these cities by the polish army.xxxvii this concept of judeo-communism was applied in the 1930s and even more so in the post-1945 period when jews were associated with unpopular communist regimes in their countries .