Accusations of '' Żydokomuna '' accompanied the incidents of anti-Jewish violence in Poland during Polish – Soviet War of 1920 , legitimized as self-defense against a people who were oppressors of the Polish nation . Some soldiers and officers in the Polish eastern territories shared the conviction that Jews were enemies of the Polish nation-state and were collaborators with Poland 's enemies . Some of these troops treated all Jews as Bolsheviks . According to some sources , anti-Communist sentiment was implicated in anti-Jewish violence and killings in a number of towns , including the Pinsk massacre , in which 35 Jews , taken as hostages , were murdered , and the Lwów pogrom during the Polish – Ukrainian War , in which 72 Jews were killed . Occasional instances of Jewish support for Bolshevism during the Polish – Soviet War served to heighten anti-Jewish sentiment
Lwów pogrom
Lwów pogrom (1918)
Żydokomuna