A Russian legislator known for his anti-Semitic comments made another such remark in the Russian Parliament, according to the Union of Councils for Jews in the FSU. While the lawmakers were discussing a bill that would allow Russia to import nuclear waste, Nikolai Kondratenko called the bill a Zionist conspiracy. “Let the Zionists send their children to hell,” he said. “We Russians want to live.”
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