Reply To: Does “Chasidish” refer to both Satmar and Lubavitch?

The Alter Rebbe was sent to Jail because he opposed Napoleon. During the Napoleonic wars Napoleon spread the ideas of the French Revolution . He basically empancipated the Jews. The Alter Rebbe opposed the Emancipation of the Jews. The Alter Rebbe supported the Ancien Regimes of the European Autocrats epecially the Czar