I have very little creativity, so I’ll just blend two of my latest successfulthreads.
Which evil tyrant would you marry if you were a young woman? Assume you have to spend at least ten years with them.
Hitler Stalin Mao
Stalin was remarkably handsome as a young man. If your going to marry evil, you mind as well marry good-looking evil.
Honestly, I think Stalin is more handsome in his photos when he’s older, shown with his traditional mustache, than in that picture, although he’d look good in that picture if he had a shave and did something with his hair.
Either way, I agree about Stalin…that is, if I were attracted to men, I suppose.
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This is wayyyyy out there. Both threads.
Eva Braun did pretty damned well for herself with Adi, even if their “marriage” was a civil one until the very end, and they were together for more than ten years, albeit with her in the background (which would suit me just fine).
I don’t think the same can be said for either Stalin or Mao’s spouses, so Adolf it is!
Stalin. Was same-sex marriage legal in Communist Russia?
To his credit, Mao didn’t kill any of his wives himself. I wouldn’t turn my back on his last one, though he did. :eek:
Comparative personal hygiene:
Stalin: smoker’s breath, wore leather boots year-round with the resulting foot funk
Mao: never brushed his teeth; just rinsed and spat with tea
Hitler: lived on eggs and veg; notoriously flatulent
Verdict: Hitler, but get your own bedroom
Companionship:
Stalin: drove his second wife to suicide. Stayed up all night reviewing death lists.
Hitler: kept his mistresses sequestered like pet hamsters. Also, another night owl
Mao: after senior dementia set in, was willing to be manipulated by a woman of equal ruthlessness. Liked to dance.
Verdict: Mao, but not for the meek
Good Provider?
Stalin: had very simple tastes, and his idea of gift-giving was to line your name off the aforementioned death list
Hitler: Grandiose tastes, plenty of social gatherings. But prone to wars of adventure which puts a crimp in things, especially when the war is eventually lost
Mao: not a good match for the fashion-conscious. Drab blue denim all the way. He’ll build a series of dams on Hunan province, but never get around to that kitchen remodeling he’s been promising
Verdict: Stalin, but don’t hope for more than a nice little dacha.
That photo of Stalin is heavily doctored. He was severely scarred by smallpox early in his life, and IIRC was also quite short and walked with a limp because his legs weren’t the same length.
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I hope this is a joke and you actually clicked on the photo of Stalin.
Cue Hitler Youtube rant where he bitches about Stalin out-polling him on this topic…
Careful, he might refer you to the Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies for that grammar of yours.
What an awful thing to consider. But I’d have to go for Hitler. He shares my appreciation for the theatrical, if nothing else. And I do love Hugo Boss and military inspired fashion.
Stalin abandoned his son to a concentration camp and drove his wife to suicide. I think he also liked to call his mother ‘that stupid bitch’, or something along those lines. It has been years since I read about him but he was an all around sociopath.
The teenage Hitler presented in the young Hitler I knew seems like a pissy goth kid. I wouldn’t enjoy that but I’d find that more tolerable than someone like Stalin. But I have no idea what Hitler was like in person in his older life. I’m assuming worse.
I don’t know enough about Mao’s personal life.
He’s absolutely right. All of the photos of Stalin in Pravda, etc., were heavily airbrushed. If you look at the photos of him together with Churchill and Roosevelt at Yalta, you can see him nursing his withered left arm. (It’s like Wilhelm II’s withered arm, or Goebbels’s club foot, or Gary Burghoff’s deformed hand. Once it’s been pointed out to you, you can’t help but notice it.)
The picture in question doesn’t show Stalin’s arm, and Mangrove’s post doesn’t mention Stalin’s arm. So I’m not sure in what sense he’s “right”.
Stalin did have a handicapped left arm, but it isn’t really that noticeable, especially given that he was almost always pictured in a military trenchcoat. I don’t think airbrushing would’ve been necessary to hide it.
I fail to follow your logic. The quote was:
That photo of Stalin is heavily doctored. He was severely scarred by smallpox early in his life, and IIRC was also quite short and walked with a limp because his legs weren’t the same length.
My initial comment was on the first portion.
In the second, I said If you look at the photos of him together with Churchill and Roosevelt at Yalta, you can see him nursing his withered left arm. I was referring to pictures like** this one**, not in Pravda:
Overcoat or not, it’s obvious once you know it’s there.
Regarding his legs, I do remember reading about them somewhere else, but not specifically where.
Can one of you please click on the actual photo in the OP, of course it’s heavily doctored.