Russia’s most famous anti-Semitic politician has struck again. At a news conference, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who heads the third largest faction in the Russian lower house of parliament, blamed Jews for starting World War II and provoking the Holocaust. When the number of Jews in a country grows too large. “war breaks out there,” Zhirinovsky said.
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