Evil Russians: 10 Non-Russian Wrestlers Who Portrayed This Role

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Upon the list of familiar wrestling tropes, one of the most tried-and-true is that of the evil foreigner – the most popular of which is the Russian.

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1. Boris Malenko

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2. Ivan Koloff

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3. Alexis Smirnoff

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4. Nikita Koloff

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5. Khrusher Khruschev

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6. Nikolai Volkoff

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