It's confirmed that Stalin tried to have John Wayne killed. Yes, it's true. And when the FBI went to warn John Wayne that killers were on his trail in Hollywood, John Wayne said, hey. Go home, boys.

So this wasn't proven that the KGB, under order from Stalin, had sent hit squads to kill John Wayne. What? That's just a claim that was made in a biography of Wayne called John Wayne, the man behind the myth. According to an article on Military.com, Wayne learned of this plot and, quote, Obviously not one to let a thing like communist assassins get him down, Wayne and his scriptwriter Jimmy Grant allegedly abducted the hitmen, took them to a beach, and staged a mock execution. No one knows exactly what happened after that, but Wayne's friends said that those Soviet agents began to work for the FBI from that day on. That sounds true for a man who dodged the draft. Also, apparently when Khrushchev took over power, I don't know how else to put this other than to say that this is a stupidly fake story being passed along in this biography, and it's really funny that Alex, the king of skepticism and guy who can see through all the BS, is just taking it at face value because it makes him feel good about his worldview.