A group of youths chanting Stalin’s name and making Nazi salutes disrupted a liberal party’s convention in Moscow over the weekend. The outburst erupted when the leader of the Democratic Choice of Russia, former Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, spoke out against recent displays of anti-Semitism among the Communist Party’s leadership. Some delegates attending the meeting helped to forcibly remove the youths from the hall. A television report showed Alexander Osovtsov, a party activist who is also executive vice president of the Russian Jewish Congress, fighting with the youths.
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