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Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most beloved action stars in the world. He has headlined action classics in the 80s and the 90s, such asThe Terminator, True Lies, Commando,andPredator. He has also shifted his focus to politics and was elected governor of California.
Schwarzenegger has been pretty vocal about his political views and has always expressed his opinion. TheExpendablesstar has a YouTube channel where he regularly posts videos talking about issues, such as the rise of anti-semitism in the USA. He had criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and warned Russian soldiers to not turn out to be like the Nazis, with whom the Austrian star’s father had connections.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Message To Russian Soldiers
Last year, Schwarzenegger posted a video message on his channelArnold Schwarzeneggerthat was directed at Russian soldiers who were part of the Russo-Ukraine War and had just invaded Ukraine as the war escalated. Many casualties and citizen displacements were recorded as a result of the invasion which was deemed to be the biggest attack on a European country since World War II.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger invoked his close ties with Russia and spoke about the various casualties that Ukrainians had faced during the invasion and the narrative that the powers that be in Russia were putting forth. Addressing the need to speak out during a humanitarian crisis, Schwarzenegger brought up his father’s ties to the Nazi party during the Second World War and how it became dangerous for him. He said,
“[My father] was injured at Leningrad and the Nazi army he was part of did vicious harm to the great city and to its brave people…To the Russian soldiers listening to this broadcast, you already know much of the truth that I’m speaking. You’ve seen it in your own eyes. I don’t want you to be broken like my father.”
TheTotal Recallstar ended the video, urging Russian soldiers to help him spread the truth about what is happening in Ukraine and stop the war.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Ties To Russia
In the mentioned video message, Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke about his relationship with Russia. He brought up legendary bodybuilder and weightlifter Yuri Vlasov, and how the actor had met him when he was a fourteen-year-old boy and had seen him lift 200kgs of weights. Schwarzenegger cited him as an inspiration in his own bodybuilding career and apparently had a photo of him on his wall, to the dismay of his father. He said in the video,
“My father told me to take down that picture and to find a German non-Austrian hero. He got really angry and we argued back and forth. He didn’t like Russians because of his experience in the Second World War…but I did not take the photograph down. Because it didn’t matter to me what flag Yuri Vlasov carried.”
Schwarzenegger had also reportedly owned a bunch of head busts of Soviet-era leaders. He reportedly asked some of his Russian wrestler friends to send him busts of Vladimir Lenin after the fall of the Soviet Union, but they kept sending him everything they could find, much to his then-wife Maria Shriver’s dismay. He said toNews Hub,
“They sent me this bust of Lenin but the problem was, they kept sending me more and more statues. I’d put them by the pool at home…Maria thought I was crazy: ‘Why do we have all these Soviet statues around our swimming pool?’ She had them all carted away. But I kept Lenin since he was the first.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger is reported also as one of only twenty-two accounts that President of Russia Vladimir Putin follows on X (formerly Twitter).
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Nishanth A is a Senior Entertainment Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on TV shows with over 2,000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past two years and a scriptwriter at various corporations before that, working on educational content. With a Communications, English Literature, and Psychology triple major, Nishanth usually covers news and analyses on Star Trek, particularly Strange New Worlds and The Next Generation; Doctor Who, the DCU, and more.A Nolan fan, Nishanth spends his time exploring the filmographies of various directors with an auteurial style or can be found making short movies of his own. He has also contributed as a feature writer for Film Companion, focusing on the South division.
