A wave of anti-Semitism has swept across a Russian city. During Passover, vandals drew a swastika and the words “Death to the kikes” on the entrance arc of the old Jewish cemetery in the center of the usually quiet city of Petrozavodsk, according to the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union.
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