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A Ukrainian politician is causing an outrage for firing an anti-Semitic slur at actress Mila Kunis, reads Calgary Herald report. 

In a Facebook rant, public leader Igor Miroshnichenko called Kunis — who is Jewish, but was born in the Ukraine — a “zhydovka”, which the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles says translates to “dirty Jewess.” He also said the Black Swan star is not a true Ukrainian.

According to Fox News, a rabbi from the Center says “zhydovka” is “a slur invoked by the Nazis and their collaborators as they rounded up Jews to murder them at Babi Yar and in the death camps” during the Holocaust.

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