After The October Revolution
Jewish political organizations, including the General Jewish Labour Bund, participated in creation of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in 1918.
During the first years of Soviet occupation of Belarus Jews were able to get managing positions in the country. For some time in the 1920s Yiddish has been the official language in East Belarus along with Belarusian, Polish and Russian. Yakov Gamarnik, a Ukrainian Jew, was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Belorussia (i.e. the de facto head of state) from December 1928 to October 1929. However, later the Soviet policy turned against the Jews (see Stalin's antisemitism).
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“I have seen in this revolution a circular motion of the sovereign power through two usurpers, father and son, to the late King to this his son. For ... it moved from King Charles I to the Long Parliament; from thence to the Rump; from the Rump to Oliver Cromwell; and then back again from Richard Cromwell to the Rump; then to the Long Parliament; and thence to King Charles, where long may it remain.”
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