He meant that 1905 was the first Russian revolution!

Yes, C. Ham, I am well aware that most Jews lived in poverty prior to 1950. That, however, was not the point of my satirical remarks. I was not making a point about Jews, I was making a point about poverty itself, and the part it plays in providing people who are very willing to riot, given an incident which provokes their smouldering resentment. To have riots you usually need either a resentful underclass, a monetary or social collapse that affects the majority of citizens, or a tremendously unpopular war that affects the majority of citizens (as the draft did in the USA during the Vietnam War, for example).

There were a lot of riots in Germany, for instance, after the First World War, and it was because people's confidence in the government had collapsed, and they were desperate. The Nazis took advantage of that instability to gain power eventually, as you well know.