Nazi beauty stripped of Russian pageant title

Though falling short of winning first prize, Kuzkova was declared the most charming among the contestants, representing the league’s 16 teams.

While 88 stands for “Heil Hitler”, as H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, the 14 is code for a 14 word slogan coined by American white supremacist David Lane: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”.

However, officials later stripped her of the title after it emerged she had made a series of racist social media postings, including one showing her performing a Nazi salute while standing in front of a wall covered in Nazi graffiti. In one image, they are even kissing under some text that reads “white love”.

Kuzkova had been previously been asked by CSKA Moscow to represent the football club in the official Russian Premier League’s annual beauty contest. The duo also feature in several photos wearing T-shirts with skulls and Celtic crosses, frequent neo-Nazi and white-supremacist symbols.

Russian media reported that Kuzkova deleted several controversial images, but others still remained on her VKontakte account on July 22. The second shows a group of small African children, clad in dirty clothing, posing for a group shot in what appeared to be a remote village.

“I love chocolate, but after this image I developed an…aversion”, Ms Kuzkova allegedly wrote in what the Moscow Times took as an insinuation that the children and chocolate looked alike.

After CSKA Moscow fans brought the pictures to the attention of Russian footballing authorities Kuzkova was stripped of her title.

“We do not tolerate manifestations of fascism, nationalism and racism”, the league’s executive director, Sergei Cheban, told Russian sports news site sports-express.ru.

Opposition players and fans often taunt African players on the field.

“It is unfortunate this has happened but…we all make mistakes in our youth and sometimes take the wrong path”. However, I beg to understand the situation and to the person.

‘Who is not without sin?

The scandal comes with Russian Federation due to host the World Cup in 2018. Some errors corrected easily, some more hard.

He said that it should help Kuzkova deal with her outlook on life.

He said that Kurkova had told him she was happy to give up her title but “in the end, we consulted with the judges and they still decided to withdraw its award”.