A dozen members of the nationalist Black Hundreds group demonstrated in front of the Russian Parliament to support a Communist lawmaker, Gen. Albert Makashov, who stirred controversy with a recent series of anti-Semitic remarks. Moscow authorities permitted the demonstration, during which the group paraded anti-Semitic banners. One banner read, “Kike Fascists, Russian Nuremberg Awaits You,” an apparent reference to the anti-Semitic laws instituted in Nazi Germany. The group takes its name from an ultranationalist organization in czarist Russia that was notorious for its role in supporting anti-Jewish pogroms.
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