A member of Ukraine’s Parliament criticized what he called the “Jewish-gay mafia.” According to monitors with the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, Pavlo Baulin also said in his speech in Parliament that this group “holds all of the state’s finances in its hands.”
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