A hard-line Communist lawmaker who created controversy last fall with repeated anti-Semitic statements has made yet another speech targeting Jews. This time, his comments prompted some newspaper commentators to say that Albert Makashov is calling for pogroms. In a speech in a largely Cossack mining town in southern Russia, Makashov said there are “good Jews” and “bad Jews” and that those whom the nationalists consider good “will continue to live,” while the bad “will have a hard time.”
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