
Russian Olympic champion Tatyana Navka stirred controversy online after appearing on an ice skating TV show in a Nazi death camp prisoner’s uniform, in a performance that she says was supposed to celebrate human dignity and spirit amid the horrors of Holocaust. Former Olympic figure skating champion Navka and actor Andrey Burkovsky wore stylized striped concentration camp uniforms with yellow Stars of David during their performance on Channel 1’s “Ice Age” show.In putting together the performance, Navka says she had the most benign intentions in mind. In an Instagram post about the dance, the former Olympic champion said her skating with her partner was based on Roberto Benigni's 1997 movie – Life is Beautiful. The protagonist in the film is a Jewish shop owner who employs his imagination to…