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It commemorates the successful Israelite revolt in the second century B.C. against their Syrian oppressors, and their refusal to assimilate into the prevailing Hellenistic culture.
This was the catalyst for the oppressed Maya to take up arms against their colonial oppressors.
In Czechoslovakia and Poland, some of those who had suffered under Nazi rule turned violently against their oppressors--or their oppressors' countrymen--and hundreds, even thousands, may have been killed.
In desperation, Poland looked to Napoleon Bonaparte and Revolutionary France for assistance against its oppressors.
Specifically, they concocted the idea of a mass murder of their German oppressors.