The Soviet authorities have instituted criminal proceedings against unknown persons who overturned and damaged gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Leningrad on April 17, the official Soviet news agency TASS reported Monday, quoting the newspaper Leningradskaya Pravda. The report said the people of Leningrad were indignant and demanded severe punishment for the culprits. The official charge is “an act of hooliganism” which refers to the vandalization of the cemetery during Easter week.
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