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Book tells how John Wayne survived Soviet assassination

Joseph Stalin ordered the KGB to assassinate John Wayne because he considered his anti-communist rhetoric a threat to the Soviet Union, according to a new biography of the film star based on interviews with Wayne’s close associates and the movie legend Orson Welles.

The book claims that Stalin’s order was cancelled by his successor Nikita Krushchev after the dictator’s death in 1953. The book says Krushchev told Wayne in a private meeting in 1958: “That was a decision of Stalin during his last five mad years. When Stalin died, I rescinded that order.”

Wayne also told Mr Munn about an attempt to kill him by an enemy sniper while he was visiting the troops in Vietnam in 1966. “One of the snipers was captured,” said Mr Munn, “and said there was a price on John’s head, put there by [China's communist leader] Mao Tse Tung.”

This was back in the day where the celebrities out of Hollywood supported the country that supported them back – and were anti-anything that was set about to bring her down…like Communism. We’re glad they didn’t succeed, Pilgrim!