Jewish residents being forced to “register” by pro-Russian militants in eastern Ukrainian city

Allah:

Interesting how the designated villain justifying Russian aggression keeps changing. In Russia itself, it’s gays who are the insidious western agents subverting the order from within. In Kiev it’s “Nazis” within the Euromaidan movement who fill that role, allegedly hellbent on exacting revenge against ethnic Russians for World War II unless Czar Vladimir intervenes to protect them.

Evidently, in Donetsk, they like their scapegoats more traditional.

Jews emerging from a synagogue say they were handed leaflets that ordered the city’s Jews to provide a list of property they own and pay a registration fee “or else have their citizenship revoked, face deportation and see their assets confiscated,” reported Ynet News, Israel’s largest news website…

The leaflets bore the name of Denis Pushilin, who identified himself as chairman of “Donetsk’s temporary government,” and were distributed near the Donetsk synagogue and other areas, according to the report.

Pushilin acknowledged the flyers were distributed by his organization but he disavowed their content, according to the web site Jews of Kiev, Ynet reported…

It says the reason is because the leaders of the Jewish community of Ukraine supported Bendery Junta, a reference to Stepan Bandera, the leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement that fought for Ukrainian independence at the end of World War II, “and oppose the pro-Slavic People’s Republic of Donetsk,” a name adopted by the militant leadership.

They’re demanding ID, passports, “religious documents,” and documents related to real property, as well as a $50 registration fee. Failure to comply means revocation of one’s citizenship in Ukraine — or “Novo Russia,” as Putin referred today to the eastern part of the country — and deportation. No word yet on armbands, but stay tuned.

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