![]() ``Maybe he is not as strong mentally as I was and can’t always follow through on his decisions.″ ``He is a very loyal kid,″ Hull reportedly said of Brett. It’s been said the relationship has been strained for years. Hull also touched on his relationship with his son, Brett, who recently signed a free-agent contract with the Dallas Stars. Hull scored 610 goals during 16 NHL seasons and twice won the Hart Trophy as the league’s most valuable player. Hull gave the interview last week while in Russia as a guest of the organizers of the annual Spartak summer hockey tournament, which this year honored Vyacheslav Fetisov, the Russian hockey great who announced his retirement from the Stanley Cup-champion Detroit Red Wings several weeks ago. I’m not running for any political office.″ When the Times asked if it would be fair to describe him as a racist, Hull reportedly replied: ``I don’t give a damn. ![]() The former Chicago Blackhawks and Winnipeg Jets star also reportedly told the newspaper that the black population of the United States was growing too quickly, that the Canadian government was too left wing and that genetic breeding was a worthy idea. The Times is a respected English-language daily read by the city’s foreign community and many of Russia’s leading politicians, academics and businessmen. ![]() He just went a little bit too far,″ Hull told the Moscow Times in a story reported by the Toronto Sun in its Wednesday edition. ``Hitler, for example, had some good ideas. TORONTO (AP) _ Hockey legend Bobby Hull has given a prominent Russian newspaper an interview in which he reportedly declared that the Nazis were not without merit.
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