Russian ice skating performance causes outrage over Holocaust-themed routine - News Summed Up

Russian ice skating performance causes outrage over Holocaust-themed routine


Tatiana Navka, who is the wife of Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, and her ice dance partner appeared in Saturday's episode of "Ice Age" dressed in striped uniforms bearing yellow six-pointed stars and heavily made-up to look bruised and frail. ( tatiana_navka/ Instagram )MOSCOW—An Olympic ice-dancing gold medallist and her dancing partner have caused controversy by dressing up in concentration camp uniforms for a routine on a popular television show. “So, in that respect, this performance was actually a refreshing change and a different way of looking at the Holocaust. “This routine is my idea,” Averbukh, who is also Ice Age’s chief producer, told Komsomolskaya Pravda on Sunday. The routine was also based on a movie and set to music from Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List.


Source: thestar November 28, 2016 20:02 UTC



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