Russian police are investigating a strange circus show that featured a monkey in a Nazi costume and a goat wearing a swastika, according to a report released Wednesday.
Animals were captured on camera touring the Udmurtia State Circus in Izhevsk, with trainers in Soviet uniforms last week, According to UK Sun.
Wild footage shows a goat wearing red swastika heads flying next to a monkey in a formal black Nazi costume.
The show – which children watched commissioned by the Russian Orthodox Church – likely violated Russian law prohibiting the display of Nazi symbolsI mentioned the port.
Local police and prosecutors are looking into whether the parade glorifies Adolf Hitler or Nazi culture.
But the church said the performers were simply using animal actors to depict the country’s historic victory over Hitler during World War II.
A representative of the church told the outlets: “The performance of trainers in Soviet uniform with animals bearing Nazi symbols was used as a picture not only of victory over fascism.” “[It depicts] Universal condemnation of the ideals of Nazi Germany. “
The circus added that no one involved in the act was actually a banana of the Third Reich.
“Trainers in the form of Red Army soldiers [were] A circus actor said “the hunt for trained animals wearing Nazi symbols”.
Last year, Vladimir Putin signed an exemption to allow the swastika to be worn in shows if they negatively portray the Nazis.
