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07/31/2003 Archived Entry: "Duke Target of Red Plot?"

STALIN WANTED THE DUKE DEAD!: Think how different my life would have been. According to HotWired:

"John Wayne was an anti-communist from the word 'go,' and that apparently so enraged Josef Stalin, the Big Red himself, that he ordered the actor's assassination. At least that's what Wayne's latest biographer, Michael Munn, is claiming in John Wayne -- The Man Behind the Myth. According to the book, several plots to eliminate the Duke failed before Nikita Khruschev, who succeeded Stalin and was a fan of Wayne's movies, rescinded the order."

I knew that Nikita wasn't that bad of a cat even with that shoe thumping...