To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Soviet victory in World War II a circus show will dress monkeys as Nazis and have them act in wartime stories, World of Monkey reports.
The director of the Yekaterinburg circus, Anatoly Marchevsky, said he opted for monkeys to represent Nazis because it was easy to design costumes for them.
“You can not dress a horse like a Nazi,” he pointed out, “People see Nazis as beasts anyway,” he added.
The festive show running from May 1st is going to consist of several wartime stories featuring both people and animals. A tightrope walker for example will set up a Soviet banner high above the audience to represent the taking of the Reichstag.
Originally the show's authors intended to have leopards act as Nazis. “Leopards are carnivores. And they fit ideally when it comes to representing aggressors,” Marchevsky explained. But in the end they had to change their minds because it was almost impossible to dress leopards in Nazi uniforms.
