The leader of Russia’s Communist Party sent Rosh Hashanah greetings to the country’s Jewish community. In his letter read during this week’s celebrations at the Moscow Choral Synagogue, Gennady Zyuganov noted the Jewish contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany and condemned anti-Semitism in Russia. On several occasions in the past, Zyuganov has made thinly veiled racist and anti-Semitic statements. Besides Zyuganov, who is expected to run for president in the year 2000, the only other top politician in Russia who extended holiday greetings to the Jewish community was President Boris Yeltsin.
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