The World - News from Sept. 26, 1988
Hundreds of people gathered outside Moscow’s Vostryakov Cemetery in an officially sanctioned rally to commemorate the Nazi massacre of 100,000 people, mainly Jews, at Babi Yar, a ravine near the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, in September, 1941. “Babi Yar was a prelude to the spiritual genocide of the Jewish people of our country,” Yuri Sokol, a veteran of World War II, told about 500 people at the cemetery. Several speakers criticized what they called the government’s anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist policies. The rally was called by the official Anti-Zionist Committee, which includes Soviet Jews who oppose Israel, and by the unofficial Society for Friendship and Relations with Israel.
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