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  1. Russian `destruction'. an unprovoked
  2. persecution or extermination of an ethnic
  3. group, particularly Jews, carried out with
  4. official connivance. The Russian pogroms
  5. began 1881, and were common throughout the
  6. country. Later there were pogroms in E Europe
  7. and in Germany under Hitler.
  8.