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Neo-Nazism is gaining more and more active support in European countries, said the attaché of the Permanent Mission of Russia to the OSCE Anastasia Milovanova. She said this during a speech at a meeting of the international organization dedicated to human rights. It takes place in the Polish capital, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper reports.
According to Milovanova, a big concern is the increase in attacks and other hate incidents. And first of all, anti-Semitism is growing. She is convinced that this situation is stimulated by the expanding support of neo-Nazi groups in some of the OSCE countries.
This is evidenced by information collected by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. According to it, this trend can be traced in Germany, France, Poland, the UK and Belgium.
Among the deputies of the parliaments of several European countries there are representatives of nationalist parties. The same facts can be encountered in the former republics of the Soviet Union, Milovanova said.
An additional incentive for xenophobia is also the celebration of the Waffen-SS veterans, organized in Latvia and Estonia. Such actions have already become commonplace in these Baltic republics. In Ukraine, high-ranking politicians and statesmen have repeatedly distinguished themselves by “radical statements, calls for xenophobia and incitement of hostility between peoples. ”
“Flirtation with neo-Nazis is fraught with an increase in the number of hate crimes that OSCE member-states have committed to fight,” Anastasia Milovanova summed up.
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