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| Soviet wrestlers mourn Ronald Reagan | |
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| Entity | Apr 12 2012, 08:17 AM Post #1 |
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"Business was good with Reagan," recalls a wistful Nikolai Volkoff. "I voted for him twice." Nikita Koloff is a fan of the dead president, too. "I wasn't a political guy," says Koloff, "but Ronald Reagan's policies were good for wrestling." Yes, Reagan's policies were good for wrestling—and even better for Volkoff, Koloff, and the gaggle of faux-Soviet wrestlers who worked the ring during the last years of the Cold War. Pro wrestling has always been pro-xenophobia, with cartoonish foreigner types employed to goose the crowd into a patriotic frenzy. But during Reagan's reign, evil German and Japanese characters—everybody but the Iron Sheik, really—got bumped down or off the card to make way for the Red Menace. -read more |
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