Stalin plot to kill Wayne

The Sun ^ | 7/29/2003 | ALLAN HALL

[sjersey]

SOVIET tyrant Josef Stalin ordered hitmen to kill movie idol John Wayne, it was claimed yesterday.

The murderous dictator feared that famously anti-Communist superstar Wayne would thwart his plans for a global red revolution.

British historian Michael Mann said: “Stalin saw him as a gigantic propaganda symbol against the Soviets.

“He was much more subtle than the atomic bomb but Stalin saw him as no less deadly.”

He said that two exiled Ukrainians living in America were given a contract to shoot the movie gunslinger, nicknamed The Duke.

They broke into his changing room at Warner Brothers’ Hollywood studios in 1943 — but the FBI ambushed them.

The Ukrainian pair then revealed they were acting for Stalin.

Mr Mann, who has written a book on the plot due out in the autumn, claims Wayne wanted to send the men back to Moscow “in wooden boxes” — but the FBI would not let him.

He says the death sentence on Wayne ended when Stalin died in 1953.

When Nikita Kruschev took over he ordered the KGB to stop plotting against Wayne — his favourite actor.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Mr Mann, who has written a book on the plot due out in the autumn, claims Wayne wanted to send the men back to Moscow “in wooden boxes” — but the FBI would not let him.

"You're layin' a hand on the wrong man, pilgrim!"

[Dan from Michigan]

Stalin - You BASTARD!!!!!!!

[Restorer]

Remarkably stupid story. Wayne didn't become well known as an anti-communist spokesman for about 20 years after this supposed incident. In 1943, the US and USSR were allied against Germany and John was busy making prowar movies.

[tet68]

Red Octopus!

[Moonman62]

Wow, this is quite a story, if true.

Stalin would love most of the actors in today's Hollywood.

[Lockbar]

Are you sure this story didn't first appear in "The Onion"?

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

"Outlived you, ya Commie bastard."

Actually, I agree with you. Stalin's doing this in 1943 doesn't make sense on any level.

[DoctorMichael]

This 'tease' doesn't say what happened to the two Ukrainians. Did they rot in prison? Deported? Executed?

[Riley]

Wayne didn't become well known as an anti-communist spokesman for about 20 years after this supposed incident. In 1943, the US and USSR were allied against Germany and John was busy making prowar movies.

That, and the Ukrainians wouldn't know who ordered the job beyond their Control Officer.

[SevenofNine]

NO F**** WAY THE DUKE?

Stalin vs Duke

I take Duke in less than 3 rounds

[Restorer]

Hardly anybody was vigorously anti-commie in 1943 in Hollywood.

The enemy of my enemy, and all that...

[Bobby777]

Stalin plot to kill Wayne



I curse his mustache!!!

[Restorer]

British historian Michael Mann said: “Stalin saw him as a gigantic propaganda symbol against the Soviets.

“He was much more subtle than the atomic bomb but Stalin saw him as no less deadly.”

Ahem. In 1943, there was no such thing as an A-bomb. There were programs in the US working towards one (heavily infiltrated by Soviet spies), but nobody had any idea whether it would really work.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

The ironic thing is, while this article is obviously fake, for reasons cited elsewhere, were someone to turn into a story about how, for example, Eisenhower plotted to kill liberal Gregory Peck, the "serious" media would probably run with it.

[Nucluside]

They prospered. Their progeny now run the National Education Association and Democrat Party.

[El Gato]

That, and the Ukrainians wouldn't know who ordered the job beyond their Control Officer.

Who was more likely to have been a German agent rather than a Soviet one. But then again, Old Uncle Joe was probably a few beets short of a borscht by 1943, so almost anything is possible.

[x]

Kill Wayne? That would leave Garth in charge!

[thinktwice]

Stalin was killing every opponent in sight from the early thirties on.

Read Solzsenitsyn's "Gulag" for some insight on Stalin.

[Finalapproach29er]

His real name was MARION. LOL!!!