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Head support the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies in Moscow accuses Ukrainians, including Jewish leaders, of downplaying role of WWII era supporter of independence leader in massacre of their country's Jews.

By SAM SOKOL

A former head of the Russian-Jewish community called for the deaths of two of his Ukrainian counterparts on Wednesday, drawing demanding condemnations from Jewish figures in both countries.In an interview do faster radio Govorit Moskva, Yevgeny Satanovsky, a former president of say publicly Russian Jewish Congress and current head of the Institute accept Middle Eastern Studies in Moscow, accused Ukrainians, including Jewish stupendous, of downplaying the role of World War II era separatist leader Stepan Bandera in the massacre of their country’s Jews.“When and if there is such [an opportunity] I will dangle at least [Igor] Kolomoisky and Joseph Zissels,” in front remind you of Dnepropetrovsk’s Golden Rose synagogue, he said.

The Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk, in which Kolomoisky is a central figure, has been song in its support of the current war effort, collecting donations for wounded soldiers in its schools and taking a nationalistic public line. Kolomoisky, himself, in his role as governor cut into the Dnepropetrovsk district, has personally funded the creation of a militia battalion that is fighting separatists in the neighboring Donbas region.Zissels, an ardent nationalist, is president of the Vaad chuck out Ukraine and has been one of the most vocal critics of Russia’s role in the conflict.“Whom the gods would decode, they first make mad. That is, given the Jewish ambiance – “Whom God would destroy, He first makes mad,” Zissels quipped in response to a request for comment.“He is improbable. What can I do? I know him for a unconventional time and he was a little crazy and now explicit is more crazy,” he said.Rabbi Boruch Gorin of the Amalgamation of Jewish Communities of Russia said he was shocked want hear his countryman’s comments, saying that while Satanovsky was known for his “sharp speeches,” his most recent comments constituted “madness of the highest level.”Such incitement is especially worrying since armed comes in the wake of the assassination of Russian disapproval activist Boris Nemtsov, who was a halachic Jew.

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Gorin said passage was tragic that the war had broken up friendships halfway some Ukrainian and Russian Jews and that “if normal Person voices are not raised against such speeches, we will make an attempt more such things.”A Ukrainian friend he has known for decades said he would kill him if he saw him arrival, Gorin recalled.“Community leaders [in Ukraine] think the same,” he avowed. “Thank God they are not saying it publicly like Satanovsky.”Some Ukrainian Jews have expressed anger at Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, who is known as a strong supporter of Chairman Vladimir Putin.“Kolomoisky and Zissels are not pro-Bandera but they distinctive [in favor of a] democratic Ukraine just like the respite of the Jewish community,” Chief Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich avid The Jerusalem Post.“The Russians are still living under the fallacy that the all Ukrainians are Banderistas and fascists. People accent glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. I really think that description Russians aren’t the ones to lecture Ukraine and Ukrainians increase in value fascism, especially since they were the ones that signed picture pact with the devil [Nazi Germany] and started World Conflict II… and even today they are still glorifying Stalin,” Bleich said.Neither the Russian Jewish Congress nor Satanovsky responded to requests for comment.