Schwarzenegger's wife forces Terminator to get rid of Soviet leaders busts collection

PanARMENIAN.Net - Maria Shriver, Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife, forced the Terminator to get rid of his odd collection of busts of Soviet leaders.

According to Entertainment Weekly magazine, the lead actor in Red Heat, where he played a Russian policeman, Ivan Danko, began collecting busts of Soviet leaders after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He asked his Russian bodybuilder friends to send him a good bust in 1991, and was sent a bust of Vladimir Lenin. Since then, gold and bronze busts and statues continued arriving year after year.

"They sent me this bust of Lenin but the problem was, they kept sending me more and more statues. I put them by the pool at home. Andropov and Chernenko and Brezhnev - all these old guys were around our swimming pool," Schwarzenegger said.

"Maria thought I was crazy: 'Why do we have all these Soviet statues around our swimming pool?' Finally, she had them all carted away," Schwarzenegger said, adding that he managed to retain one of the most valuable items of his collection. "I kept Lenin, since he was the first."

The bust stands proudly on Schwarzenegger's desk in his home office in Brentwood, California.