very little known Jewish holocaust (Polotsk drownings) Following the fall of Belarusian Polotsk to t

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"Polotsk drownings" is very little known Jewish holocaust (Polotsk drownings) Following the fall of Belarusian Polotsk to the Maskal hordes of Ivan IV, all those who refused to convert to Maskal Orthodox (Nestorian) Christianity were ordered drowned in the Western Dvina river.

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Ivan IV Vasilyevich commonly known as Ivan the Terrible (Russian: About this sound ..... During his first offensive in 1579, he retook Polotsk with 22,000 men. .... the religious concepts of the 16th century, which included drowning and roasting ... for example, after the capture of Polotsk, all unconverted Jews were drowned, .

 

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John Klier: "Muscovite armies led by Tsar Ivan IV captured the Belarusian (Great Lithuanian) city of Polotsk. The Tsar ordered drowned in the river Dvina all Jews who refused to convert to Orthodox Christianity. This episode certainly demonstrates the overt religious hostility towards the Jews which was very much a part of Muscovite culture, but its conversionary aspects were entirely absent from modern pogroms. Nor were the Jews the only heterodox religious group singled out for the tender mercies of Muscovite religious fanaticism."[98]