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Estonia, Latvia accused of anti-Semitism

MOSCOW, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- The president of the Russian-Jewish Congress, Evgeni Satanovsky, has accused government and municipal officers in Estonia and Latvia of blatant anti-Semitism

During a Monday interview with the Novosti news agency, Satanovsky said attempts to whitewash Nazism are a manifestation of anti-Semitism. His comments came as Estonian authorities plan a commemoration of World War II collaborators.

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Satanovsky said monuments to hangmen mean the past lives on, noting local Nazi officials exterminated several hundred thousand Jews in the then Soviet Baltics, allowing their German bosses to claim the area Judenfrei-"clean of Jewry".

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