Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said on Saturday, in the context of commemorating 84 years since the Iasi Pogrom, that Romania has taken significant steps in acknowledging its past, instituting legal mechanisms to combat hate speech, Holocaust denial and distortion.According to a government press release, the Iasi Pogrom "was an act of systematic violence, carried out with the support of state structures, which tore apart not only a community but the very moral fabric of the state, leaving deep scars...