Over 1,000 veterans of the Estonian SS Legion celebrated the legion’s 60th anniversary in Ida-Virumaa, Estonia, according to an August 29, 2002 article in the Russian language newspaper “Estonia.” Some rally participants jeered when a speaker mentioned the Simon Wiesenthal Center, whose staffer Efraim Zuroff has accused Estonian Nazi collaborators of killing Jews. Loud applause broke out when, referring to an employee of the Center, one speaker argued: “We should not says ‘the politician Yakobson’ but instead the ‘Jew Yakobson.’” The mayor of Johvi was spotted in the crowd, though he did not speak at the event.

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