Anti-Semitic incidents took place during demonstrations across Russia at the recent May Day and World War II Victory Day rallies, according to the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. At the May Day rally in Moscow, some marchers held signs that read “Down with Jewish Fascism and Bandit Capitalism!” That same day in Novosibirsk, one demonstrator with a megaphone claimed that local authorities are “Yids who have robbed everybody.”
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