Jews in southern Russia’s Krasnodar region protested the distribution of an anti-Semitic book that local education officials are recommending as a high school history textbook. “The Secret History of Russia in the 20th Century,” published with public funds, contains anti-Semitic myths about the negative influence of Jews in Russia since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
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