Every year, the St. Petersburg Jewish community holds a Holocaust memorial on the first Sunday of October. It commemorates the 800 Jews of Pushkin who were murdered by the Nazis in 1941.
But not this year.
The deputy head of the St. Petersburg district administration, Vladimir Lvov, banned the annual event, using the excuse of coronavirus restrictions.
However, the ceremony was held in 2022 and 2023.
One news site notes that St. Petersburg authorities routinely use Covid-19 as an excuse to ban political expression that they oppose.
So it sure appears that they are now sanctioning antisemitism.
