Outside the Beltway

UNCLE JOE VS. THE DUKE

James Joyner · Thursday, July 31, 2003 · 2 comments

MSNBC reports

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was so outraged at the anti-communism of film star John Wayne that he plotted to have him murdered, according to a new biography of the American icon.

Yet another reason to dislike Stalin.

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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College and a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm vet. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

Comments

Spoons says:

Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 20:56

Oh, that DOES it!

I don’t like Stalin, now.
Matthew J. Stinson | weblog says:

Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 12:18

What do John Wayne and Leon Trotsky have in common?
If you said they were both inspirations for the vast neocon conspiracy, guess again. How about the revelation that both men were targets of Stalin’s assassins? That’s one of the interesting new facts in a forthcoming biography of the Duke….

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