https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borki_train_disaster#Investigation

In the preceding years, [Sergei] Witte had been regularly involved in managing imperial train journeys across his railroad and was well known to the tsar. Two months before the crash, Alexander, upset about Witte’s insistence on reducing train speed limits, had publicly chastised him and his railway, referring to its owners’ ethnicity:

Nowhere else has my speed been reduced; your railroad is an impossible one because it is a Jewish road.

According to Witte, he had warned the government earlier of the deficiencies in train setup, notably using paired steam engines and faulty saloon cars.

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Neo-nazis are still on the “accuse anyone we don’t like of being Jewish” train. They bust out the calipers and rulers to measure people’s noses and get into struggle sessions over it.

    I’m not kidding: any woman in an interracial relationship or who does sex work is seen as being secretly Jewish and they get into arguments over how large her nose is and if you find her attractive you must be secretly gay because she’s obviously trans and…