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Russian National Unity (RNU) members giving a salute RNU members give a group Nazi-style salute. The fact that the RNU exists as a serious organization in a country that lost tens of millions of people in the struggle against Nazi Germany is a clear indication of the disorientation that many Russians feel as a result of the economic and societal breakdown which has followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. |
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The Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (UCSJ) has been active in protecting the welfare and security of Jews, and monitoring human rights, in the former Soviet Union (FSU) since 1970. UCSJ, based in Washington D.C., has local councils and affiliated organizations throughout the United States and internationally. UCSJ supports human rights bureaus in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Lviv, Riga, Almaty, Bishkek, Minsk, and Tbilisi; a Yad L’ Yad (hand-to-hand) network in over 90 towns in the former Soviet Union partnered with UCSJ councils and synagogues; and a network of antisemitism and human rights monitors throughout the FSU.
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