A show was broadcast on state radio in the former Soviet republic of Belarus that quoted extensively from a notorious anti-Semitic tract. According to the broadcast — protested by local Jewish activists — the breakup of the Soviet Union and the economic difficulties now confronting Belarus were predicted in “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
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