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July 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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10:16 EST, 22 July 2012
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21:32 EST, 22 July 2012
A Russian opera singer has pulled out as a lead star in this year’s Bayreuth Festival in Germany because it has been revealed he has a Swastika tattoo.
Yevgeny Nikitin said the offensive tattoo was a mistake and something he did when he was a member of a heavy metal band as a teenager.
He said he quit the concert because the German media had drawn attention to it.
Yevgeny Nikitin has pulled out of Germany’s Bayreuth Festival because the German media drew attention to his Swastika tattoos
The heavily tattooed singer was going to debut in the lead role of a new production of the Flying Dutchman opera on Wednesday but organisers have since confirmed he is no longer taking part.
The festival only features works by 19th Century composer Richard Wagner and has a complicated past with the Nazi regime.
Wagner often expressed anti-Semitic views himself and his daughter-in-law, Winifred Wagner, who headed the festival during the Nazi rule was a strong admirer of Adolf Hitler.
Hitler also regularly attended the festivals during his dictatorship and helped fund it.
‘I was not aware of the extent of the irritation and offence these signs and symbols would cause, particularly in Bayreuth given the context of the festival’s history,’ Nikitin said to the DPA news agency.
‘I had them done in my youth. It was a big mistake and I wish I’d never done it.’
Composer Richard Wagner often expressed anti-Semitic views and the Bayreuth Festival only features works composed by him
The row over the tattoo, which shows a Swastika on Nikitin’s chest, started when a programme on German TV mentioned them in a report about him on Friday.
The singer chose to pull out of the festival after organisers confronted him, a statement on the festival’s website said.
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if the tattoo was a mistake why hasn’t he had it removed or replaced with something less offensive?
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He could have had it removed by now if he had really wanted to.
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That’s the danger of the “act now, think later” “live fast, die young”, attitude some foolish youths adopt in order to excuse stupid behaviour. A stupid, probably impromptu split second decision he made as an immature youth has come back to haunt him.
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why didn’t he remove via laser surgery.
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Hmmm he regrets the tattoo so much that he’s neither had it removed (as can be done) or covered over. As for not knowing what reaction it’d have – get real mate!
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Get them lasered off then, simple!
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Have it covered with another tattoo if you are ashamed of it!
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If he really wanted too…..he could have the tattoo artist draw over the design…….or otherwise camouflage the design
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He’s got plenty more tattoos, why didn’t he get it covered up?
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If it was such a mistake…why doesn’t he just get them covered?
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