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November 23, 2013
Russian hockey fans and anti-Nazi groups were outraged after dancers supporting a Latvian hockey club laid out a symbol resembling swastika right before a game with their Russian guests. The Kontinental Hockey League found no problem with the symbol.
The idea of the ice show ahead of Sunday’s match between Russian HC Yugra and the Latvian hosts, Dinamo Riga, was to mark the 95th anniversary of the Republic of Latvia. A part of the show featured dancers forming a number of national and folk symbols with the help of the Latvian flags.
One of those formations was, however, taken as an insult and a provocation by fans of the Russian club, and later by many other Russians, after a photo of what appeared to be a huge swastika laid out on the stadium’s ice went viral in the media on Wednesday.
The performance, which was carried out by two dance groups of Latvia’s National Armed Forces and was staged by a Latvian choreographer, has since become the subject of a public controversy.
World Without Nazism movement has protested the stunt and sent letters condemning the “swastika show” to the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
The group’s president Boris Spiegel said he was “astonished” by the incident, and that the sport’s organization should react to this “cynical act.”
The Latvian side said they were “surprised” and “disappointed” by such a reaction to what they claimed was merely a demonstration of an ancient folk ornament.
