A 1970 photo showing Teodor Nastu standing first from right. In rear on the left is Roman Codreanu, the super-heavyweight wrestler who went on to win multiple international medals for Romania.
Teodor Nastu didn’t tell his wife he was defecting when he arranged for an official trip to Greece from his native Romania in 1982.
The East European nation was sti…
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