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Russian go-kart champion performs Nazi salute

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Russian go-kart champion performs Nazi salute
1946: Members of the Tribunal (left), preside over the Nuremberg war crimes Trials. From left to right are : Colonel A F Volchlov (Russia), General J T Nikitchenko (Russia), Lord Justice Norman Birkett (Britain), The President Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence (Britain), Hon. Francis A Biddle (USA), Hon. John Parker (USA), and M. Henri Donnedieu De Vabres (France). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Butchers of Bucha must face justice

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BUCHA, UKRAINE - APRIL 04: (EDITORS NOTE: Image contains graphic content.) Bodies are seen inside a mass grave by a church on April 4, 2022 in Bucha, Ukraine. The Ukrainian government has accused Russian forces of committing a "deliberate massacre" as they occupied and eventually retreated from Bucha, 25km northwest of Kyiv. Dozens of bodies have been found in the days since Ukrainian forces regained control of the town. (Photo by Alexey Furman/Getty Images)

The corpses and mass graves in Bucha tells the world the case against Putin at his Nuremberg will be overwhelming

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President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) Moshe Kantor speaks during the Malmo International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism - Remember ReAct, in Malmo, Sweden, on October 13, 2021 - - Sweden OUT (Photo by Jonas EKSTROMER / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by JONAS EKSTROMER/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

UK government sanctions Moshe Kantor, President of European Jewish Congress, for ties to Putin

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures as he speaks during a press conference in Kyiv on March 3, 2022. - Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the West on March 3, 2022, to increase military aid to Ukraine, saying Russia would advance on the rest of Europe otherwise. "If you do not have the power to close the skies, then give me planes!" Zelensky said at a press conference. "If we are no more then, God forbid, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia will be next," he said, adding: "Believe me." (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

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As Jews flee Ukraine and Russia, thank God for Israel

As Jews flee Ukraine and Russia, thank God for Israel

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A section of New York's Jewish community carrying a banner reading 'Free Soviet Jews' during the Solidarity Sunday for Soviet Jewry demonstration in protest at the Soviet Union's treatment of Jewish people, in New York City, New York, 13th April 1975. The march ended in a rally where speakers called for the Soviet Union to grant Jews the 'basic rights' to emigrate to Israel and to practice their religion. (Photo by Peter Keegan/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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