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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Russia, one who takes part in or promotes organized massacre, as of Jews.

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Examples

  • Still, the assault and its undertones of pogromist anti-Semitism Logan is not Jewish is very troubling and, at the very least, suggests that not everyone in Tahrir Square that night had democracy on their mind.

    Richard Cohen: CBS shouldn't have withheld Lara Logan's story Richard Cohen 2011

  • Then I woke up, ate a bowl of Rice Krispies, and walked to school — the Howard T. Herber Middle School — where a sixth-grade pogromist named Patrick Harrington and his Cossack associates pitched pennies at me in a game sometimes known as “Bend the Jew,” which ended, inevitably, with me being jumped for refusing to pick up the aforementioned pennies, and also for killing Jesus.

    Hollywood’s Jewish Avenger 2009

  • Then I woke up, ate a bowl of Rice Krispies, and walked to school — the Howard T. Herber Middle School — where a sixth-grade pogromist named Patrick Harrington and his Cossack associates pitched pennies at me in a game sometimes known as “Bend the Jew,” which ended, inevitably, with me being jumped for refusing to pick up the aforementioned pennies, and also for killing Jesus.

    Hollywood’s Jewish Avenger 2009

  • Then I woke up, ate a bowl of Rice Krispies, and walked to school — the Howard T. Herber Middle School — where a sixth-grade pogromist named Patrick Harrington and his Cossack associates pitched pennies at me in a game sometimes known as “Bend the Jew,” which ended, inevitably, with me being jumped for refusing to pick up the aforementioned pennies, and also for killing Jesus.

    Hollywood’s Jewish Avenger 2009

  • Still, the assault and its undertones of pogromist anti-Semitism Logan is not Jewish is very troubling and, at the very least, suggests that not everyone in Tahrir Square that night had democracy on their mind.

    Richard Cohen: CBS shouldn't have withheld Lara Logan's story Richard Cohen 2011

  • Then I woke up, ate a bowl of Rice Krispies, and walked to school — the Howard T. Herber Middle School — where a sixth-grade pogromist named Patrick Harrington and his Cossack associates pitched pennies at me in a game sometimes known as “Bend the Jew,” which ended, inevitably, with me being jumped for refusing to pick up the aforementioned pennies, and also for killing Jesus.

    Hollywood’s Jewish Avenger 2009

  • Still, the assault and its undertones of pogromist anti-Semitism Logan is not Jewish is very troubling and, at the very least, suggests that not everyone in Tahrir Square that night had democracy on their mind.

    CBS shouldn't have withheld Lara Logan's story Richard Cohen 2011

  • To cope with Monarchist manifestations and pogromist movements, it is indispensable to take immediate measures to suppress these movements, and for this purpose to create at Petrograd a Committee of Public Safety, composed of representatives of the Municipality and the organs of the revolutionary democracy, acting in contact with the Provisional Government….

    Chapter 3. On the Eve 1922

  • But the bourgeois and the coalitionist press represented this movement as a pogromist, counter-revolutionary affair, and, at the same time, as a Bolshevist crusade, the immediate object of which was to seize the reins of Government by the use of armed force against the Central Executive Committee.

    From October to Brest-Litovsk Leon Davidovich Trotzky 1909

  • In the 1960s Trofim Lycenko, the notorious Stalin’s scientific pogromist who personally snitched on many scientists wrote an open letter to the Russian scientific community saying that he ‘just had some ideas to discuss’ and that ’that what he was doing all his life and was ready to debate those any time’.

    On Kings and Cabbage and Opednews 2008

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