Performances by Navka and Burkovsky as prisoners. Tatyana Navka: We need to remember the Holocaust

Tatiana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky’s performance about the Holocaust was shown in the “Ice Age” program on Channel One. The topic of competition in this episode of the program for all participants was famous films. The couple Navka and Burkovsky chose for their dance an Oscar-winning film about concentration camp prisoners, a tragicomedy Roberto Benigni "Life is Beautiful". Together with his coach Ilya Averbukh, they decided to choose the song Beautiful That Way from this film and appear before the audience in the image of prisoners of a fascist concentration camp - in striped robes and with a Star of David on their chest.

After the speech, many angry comments and messages appeared online and in the press. Some of the viewers who had not seen the film and did not know its plot were amazed to see the figure skaters in the guise of prisoners in a concentration camp, merrily dancing and fooling around. For those who don’t know, the plot of that same film is centered on the tragic story of a father and son who ended up in a concentration camp. In order to protect his son from the horrors that happen in the camp, as well as from death, the father presents everything that happens to his child as a fun game.

Negative reviews about the dance of Tatiana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky Even some world media left, including CNN, BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, who did not forget to mention that she is the wife of the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov.

Tatyana Navka herself expressed her surprise at the sharp reaction of the Western press: People probably didn’t watch this wonderful film, which won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and received three Oscars, the Russian figure skater commented on the attacks in her direction.

An official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spoke harshly about Western critics Maria Zakharova, who called them cowardly hypocrites and liars. On her Facebook, Zakharova wrote the following lines: WHERE ARE YOU ALL HIDING WHEN MONUMENTS TO THOSE WHO FIGHTED THE HOLOCAUST ARE TOMORROWED IN EUROPE? FOR 30 YEARS IN THE BALTICS THE VETERANS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR HUMILIZED BY DENIING CITIZENSHIP - YOU, ..., WHERE WERE YOU? IT WAS YOU WHO MOCKED THE 2015 MOSCOW VICTORY PARADE, CALLING IT “A MANIFESTATION OF MILITARISM.” AND WHEN SHAVED GUYS WITH SWASTIKA AND TORCHES MARCH IN UKRAINE - WHICH WAY DO YOU TURN IN? AND WHERE DO YOU RUN WHEN THE WAFFEN SS LEGIONARIES ARE ARRANGING PARADES?..., and concluded: THEN YOU ALL WERE SILENT. YOU CAN ONLY DISCUSS SKATES.

Tatiana Navka and Andrey Burkovsky - “Beautiful That Way” video

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The press secretary was asked about the number, which was sharply criticized both in Russia and abroad. Peskov replied that this did not concern the Kremlin and added that he was proud of his wife.

The November 26th episode of Ice Age was dedicated to cinema. and Tatyana Navka chose for their performance the film “Life is Beautiful”, in the plot of which parents in a concentration camp try to protect their child, pretending that everything that happens is a game. However, media representatives and Internet users criticized the performance because the dancers in concentration camp robes were smiling and having fun.

Earlier, Tatyana Navka also expressed surprise at the strange reaction of the media to their act with Burkovsky in the image of prisoners of Auschwitz. She stated that she and Andrei only did their performance out of pure and good intentions, which the skater considers the most striking on the Ice Age project. She urged critics of the performance to watch the film “Life is Beautiful” with their children in order to correctly understand the essence of the performance.

The performance, as the skater explained, is based on her favorite film “Life is Beautiful.” The film is based on the biography of Rubino Romeo Salmoni - an Italian Jew, a prisoner of Auschwitz, who described his stay in the death camp in the book "I Defeated Hitler"
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The famous figure skater Tatyana Navka, the wife of the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, performed a number about the love of prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp as part of an ice show. Her dance partner was the artist Andrei Burkovsky. In his Instagram Navka explained that this terrible time must be “known and remembered,” however, the production caused a mixed reaction on social networks.

The performance of Navka and Burkovsky was broadcast on the evening of November 26 in the “Ice Age” program. The performance, as the skater explained, is based on her favorite film “Life is Beautiful.” The film is based on the biography of Rubino Romeo Salmoni, an Italian Jew, a prisoner of Auschwitz, who described his stay in the death camp in the book “I Defeated Hitler.”

A video of the performance was published on the channel's website. Navka and Burkovsky dance in striped prison uniforms with yellow Stars of David sewn on them to the song Beautiful that Way. The couple's coach was the famous figure skater Ilya Averbukh. The judges of the show rated the artistry and technique of the performers with a maximum of six points.

The site MeadiaLeaks collected harsh reviews of the act: during a heated and often obscene discussion, the performers were asked to “starve for a couple of months” or complete the act in a gas chamber. U video, published on the official Ice Age YouTube channel, negative ratings also predominate.

President of the Holocaust Foundation Alla Gerber, who commented on the number on the radio "Moscow Speaking", urged not to perceive the situation so unambiguously. “The topic is so painful, so bloody, that how to address it, what are the criteria? This, first of all, it seems to me, should not be mockery, it should not be irony, there should not be a wry smile.” At the same time, she emphasized that “even in the most terrible conditions, people continued to live until the last minute... they wrote, they sang, they loved.”

“The Holocaust is not only destruction. It is colossal resistance, resistance of the spirit, resistance of human qualities, resistance of human dignity. If this dance dedicated to the Holocaust had all this, then I don’t see anything wrong with it,” says Gerber.

Holocaust is the generally accepted term for the genocide of Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators in 1933-1945. According to rough estimates, about 6 million people became victims of massacres and the system of concentration death camps.