ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Żydokomuna

Well kiddo, żydokomuna is a word that some people use to talk about a time and place in history when some Jewish people and some communist people worked together in Poland after World War II.

Now let's break that down a little more.

After the war, Poland was getting back on its feet and trying to rebuild. Some people wanted to do this by following the ideas of communism, which is a way of organizing society where everyone shares everything equally. Other people wanted to keep things how they were before the war.

Some Jewish people, who had suffered a lot during the war, saw communism as a way to make things better for themselves and for everyone else. They thought that communism could help get rid of things like poverty and inequality.

Some other people didn't agree with this and thought that communism was bad for Poland. Some of these people didn't like that some of the Jewish people were involved with the communist movement, and they started using the word żydokomuna as an insult. This word basically means "Jewish communism".

So, in short, żydokomuna is a term used to describe a time when some Jewish people and some communist people worked together in Poland after World War II, but it was seen by some as a bad thing. But remember kiddo, it's important to be kind and respectful to everyone, no matter what their beliefs are.