15 August 1998 In comments marking the anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, President Boris Yeltsin said Nazism is “on the rise in Russia and is poisoning our youth” and called extremism “a real danger, even if not everybody feels it.” Commentators speculated that the president had made the comments to scare the West […]
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