“A separate column of armed police marched with the Zionists through (New York’s) streets under anti-Soviet posters,” according to Komsomolskaya Pravda, the official Soviet youth newspaper, in an apparent reference to the solidarity with Soviet Jewry rally in New York on May 6.
“Can you imagine these people defending Soviet athletes?” the newpaper asked in its May 25 edition, the Institute of Jewish Affairs, the World Jewish Congress research arm here, reported. The article, titled “From Fascists to Gangsters” apparently cited the rally as one reason why Moscow decided to withdraw from the summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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