Stalin was Evil
Not only was Stalin the head of the second most murderous regime in world history, responsible for reppression, famine and countless other crimes - that son of bitch Uncle Joe tried to kill the Duke.
CBS news reported this morning on the tube that in the late forties and early fifties, Stalin ordered multiple hit attempts on John Wayne, the outspoken anti-Communist actor.
If anyone had any doubt that Communism is evil, evil, evil, right to the bone, well there's your proof. You don't try and kill the Duke. Apparently, once Kruschev came to power, he stopped the assassination attempts because he was a big fan of the Duke. Go figure.
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Buckethead,
Buckethead,
Isn't it possible that Stalin was just a very, very passionate film critic?
I'm not the biggest Duke fan in the world, personally. Give me Eastwood any day.
I agree with you on the Duke
I agree with you on the Duke/Eastwood comparison. Almost every single one of my favorite westerns has Clint in it. Nevertheless, trying to kill the Duke is completely out of bounds.
John Wayne was just one
John Wayne was just one target on Joseph Stalin's "to do" list. His early rival Trotsky, exiled in Mexico, got an ice pick in the brain. Trotsky, killed by a Soviet agent, had referred to Stalin as "the party's most eminent mediocrity."
It was risky to criticize the malignant narcissist Stalin, or his murderous empire (as Wayne did), to expose the fraud purporting to be humanity's greatest genius, the "Coryphaeus of Science," as Stalin liked to be known.
Adore me--or else.
Stalin's envy can be measured by his body count, in quantity and quality. For Stalin to consider offing Wayne shows the actor had something the dictator painfully lacked. That isn't surprising, considering that Stalin was short, pot-bellied, pigeon-toed, with a pock-marked face, pathologically paranoid, and apparently incapable of receiving love that was not in some way extorted.
When Nazi Germany attacked the USSR, the dictator, hero of relentless propaganda, apparently at first had a nervous breakdown. "I'm a most unfortunate person," said Stalin. "I'm afraid of my own shadow."
No wonder he hated the Duke.