John Wayne's Dark Connection to Communism Revealed
374John Wayne, the Hollywood legend of Westerns, war movies, and everything in between is one of the most famous and inspirational leads to come out of the Golden era of filmmaking.
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Having worked on over 170 productions, he was a true master of his craft. Not only that, he was extremely outspoken about his anti-communism beliefs. Communism is a philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society, namely a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state.
As one of the most famous people on the planet, Wayne’s public displays of anti-communism were dangerous to those he opposed. Joseph Stalin was the Soviet Union’s ultimate censor. While global Communism was very much a growing threat, Stalin wanted it to continue to spread around the world, under Soviet leadership. Stalin saw how much power and influence films, as well as the stars in them, held over large audiences. He witnessed this in the Nazi German propaganda during the Second World War and he used it himself in order to further his own personality cult.
When Stalin saw John Wayne’s power as a dangerous anti-Communist on the rise, he ordered the actor killed. He did so by allegedly sending more than one hit squad to do the job. He saw Wayne as a threat to the spread of Communism around the world, especially in the United States. It’s believed that Soviet filmmaker Sergei Gerasimov told Wayne of the KGB’s plot to assassinate him, in 1949. What’s the most mind blowing, is what the Hollywood legend and his friends did to the hit squad.
Join us as we take a look at John Wayne’s dark connection to communism and how he handled a squad of communist hitmen.
John Wayne's Dark Connection to Communism Revealed