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Sept. 25, 2011, 10:37 p.m. | Ukraine — by Reuters
(Reuters) - Ukrainian police detained dozens of people on Sept. 25 protesting against what they called an uncontrolled influx of Jewish pilgrims to the town of Uman, police and the Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda said. The protest, attended by about 100 people, took place days before the 70th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, the mass killing of Jews by Nazis after the occupation of Kyiv in 1941.

Uman, a town of 90,000 in central Ukraine, is the site of an annual pilgrimage by tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews who visit the grave of a prominent Jewish cleric, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov.

Svoboda held the protest rally in Uman to demand stricter legal and sanitary controls on pilgrims. Its activists say the pilgrim influx must be better regulated and presents a security and health risk.

"We are not anti-Semites, we do not have anything against Jews," Tetyana Chornomaz, the head of the regional Svoboda unit, told Reuters by telephone from Uman. "(But) we have many questions regarding their (pilgrims') stay in Ukraine."

Chornomaz said riot police detained about 20 people following brief scuffles after the rally but it was not clear if they faced any charges.

Interfax news agency quoted the Interior Ministry as saying police had detained about 60 people.
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Anonymous Sept. 25, 2011, 11:03 p.m.    

We all know Svoboda is a Nazi-loving organisation, just like their messiah - Bandera.

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Anonymous Sept. 25, 2011, 11:16 p.m.    

and just who pray tell is &quot;we&quot;?? all you stalinist robotoids who dont seem to know that the BIGGEST COLLABORATOR of all was Comrade Dzhugashvili. If he could collaborate why not a littel schmuck like Bandera??

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 1:31 a.m.    

Anyone know who the Soviet Jew Lazar Kaganovich was and what crimes against humanity he was guilty of? Check out Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Kaganovich

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Anonymous Sept. 25, 2011, 11:17 p.m.    

ANyone ever share a room with a Hassidik?? WHo also thinks the maloros goyim are animals?

YOu can take the jews out of Russia -- but you can't the Russia out of the Jews.

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, midnight    

SIMPLE money making solution! $$$$$ Set up pay portable toilets and give fines to those who don't use them and instead defecate and urinate on your bushes, fences, streets and walls. Also sell Kosher fast food ...you morons should take advantage of this migration money making opportunity!$$$$$

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 3:03 a.m.    

Hide the prostitutes who cheapen the image of the nation.

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 3:08 a.m.    

Difficult to control the orange abomination known as FEMEN. Better invite the xoxol diaspora sex traffickers to join the party :D

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 3:11 a.m.    

Yup,

Just post the images of the xoxol nazi DUPA criminals inside the toilets and no Jew will miss the opportunity. Bandera image will make a wonderfull toilet paer, heh, heh, heh :D

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 7:13 a.m.    

actually mirrors would be more appropriate

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 3:07 a.m.    

Murderous xoxol scumbags need to have their nazi sins washed by the God chosen urine, heh, heh, heh :D

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 6:19 a.m.    

Communists &amp; Zionists collaborated with Nazis way before any Ukrainian nationalists were ever consulted...Zionist were responsible for the requirement of Jews having to wear the Star of David! Read about it in Jewish encyclopedias

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 5:08 a.m.    

The Genocide You Never heard Of:

http://www.henrymakow.com/the_genocide_you_never_hear_of.html

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 5:12 a.m.    

Adolf Hitler: Agent Of Zionism:

http://www.henrymakow.com/adolf_hitler_--_agent_of_zioni.html

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 6:27 a.m.    

In Ukraine there are protest over Jews. In Russia, the Jews would be shot.

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 7:11 a.m.    

Its NOT about Jews or &quot;Hebrews&quot;(the new Ukrainian term for Jews)but its about Hasidics who commit crimes,act rude and cheap and have pig like toilet habits!!! If they behaved like normal civilized tourists they would be treated as such!

It is NOT anti-Semitic to expect and demand that Hasidics behave like human beings instead of pigs. Most Israeli student and adult visiting groups act responsible, respectable and dignified!and they are treated like all other visiting tourists! American tourist Jews act like Americans and are also treated as Americans.

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 1:59 p.m.    

So disgusting these Ukrainian nationalists.

A look at the &quot;woman&quot; in the photo says everything.

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 2:55 p.m.    

Looks like Vitrenko without the fake dyed red hair.

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 2:55 p.m.    

Local ukrainian citizens have less rights then problematic Jews!

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 3:20 p.m.    

And these are the same people who pleed for democracy ... lol hypocracy at its best ! The sight of that woman is simply disgusting. Instead of protesting about the jews, go protest over the tatars who didn't like it when our kazaki wanted to put a big cross somewhere in the Krim area.

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 6:27 p.m.    

The solution is simple if the pilgrims cause trouble have the milita open fire and make the families pay for the bullets before turning over the bodies to them.You can be sure next year pilgrims will behave.

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Anonymous Sept. 26, 2011, 8:57 p.m.    

Ukrainians are the least privileged in their own country. The real story is that everyone else has the right to assembly except Ukrainians.

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Anonymous Sept. 27, 2011, 4:48 p.m.    

bolshevik jew lazr kaganovich would probably have those hash-headics disciplined in the gulags or most probably a lot worse....some bad apples do not make the tree bad though the few rotten ones get the attention of everyone...

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Anonymous Nov. 14, 2011, 1:09 p.m.    

From what I see the Ukrainians should be protesting about the Oligarch Jews who steal state assets at firesale prices.

Svoboda should stand up to them. Before their country is sold out from under them.

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