The president of Belarus called for a crackdown on neo-Nazi groups operating in the former Soviet republic. “We will pull out the legs of all those” who march around the capital of Minsk “wearing the fascist swastika,” Alexander Lukashenko said. His comments came after three human rights activists were recently beaten by members of the neo-Nazi Russian National Unity movement.
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