The head of the Kremlin diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, once angered the Jews with a cynical statement in which he compared the Russians to the victims of the Holocaust, and accused the West of Nazism. The European Jewish Congress (EJC) reacted to Lavrov's words by publishing a statement on its website..

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“We are shocked and stunned by this shameful comparison drawn by Minister Lavrov between the actions of a coalition of democratic countries and the persecution of Hitler and the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust,” said EJC President Ariel Muzikant..

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Recall that in early May, Lavrov, answering questions from an Italian journalist about the accusations of Ukrainians and President Volodymyr Zelensky, said that “ardent anti-Semites are usually Jews” and that Hitler was also a Jew.. This statement then so outraged the Jews that the Russian ambassador was summoned to the Israeli Foreign Ministry..