# Stalin Mao or Hitler, Who would you marry? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 5, 2013, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stalin-mao-or-hitler-who-would-you-marry/646150 "2013-01-05T11:17:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stalin-mao-or-hitler-who-would-you-marry/646150/21 "2013-01-06T00:04:08Z")
Stalin is out, as he is murderously paranoid and bad things happened to those close to him. Mao and Hitler were much more pleasant, they were artistic and good with people. I would pick Mao for his far more enlightened views about women and the power and freedom he gave his wife. He did have hundreds of mistresses when he was older so I would be very careful to use protection after I gave him children. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stalin-mao-or-hitler-who-would-you-marry/646150/22 "2013-01-06T03:54:31Z")
Der Fuhrer: [http://archive.heinessen.com/boards/k/img/0135/83/1354578495130.jpg](http://archive.heinessen.com/boards/k/img/0135/83/1354578495130.jpg) Also Chairman Mao: [http://archive.heinessen.com/boards/k/img/0135/83/1354578242433.jpg](http://archive.heinessen.com/boards/k/img/0135/83/1354578242433.jpg) Uncle Joe: [http://www.deculture.es/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Joseph-Stalin-moe.jpg](http://www.deculture.es/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Joseph-Stalin-moe.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stalin-mao-or-hitler-who-would-you-marry/646150/23 "2013-01-06T07:10:59Z")
Is there nothing that can’t be made cute? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stalin-mao-or-hitler-who-would-you-marry/646150/24 "2013-01-06T07:16:15Z")
Mao shared power with his wife and pretty much let her do whatever she wanted (like mastermind the Cultural Revolution). Nothing says, “I love you” like letting your wife ruin the lives of millions of people. ---
**Author:** ![Sevencl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sevencl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevencl)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stalin-mao-or-hitler-who-would-you-marry/646150/25 "2013-01-06T07:16:21Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Is there nothing that can’t be made cute? Ann Coulter. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stalin-mao-or-hitler-who-would-you-marry/646150/26 "2013-01-06T08:48:47Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > 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._ Here is a [photo](http://jl10ll.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/stalin.jpg) where you can see the scarring, they didn’t manage to totally airbrush them out. And here is [one](http://www.historytoday.com/sites/default/files/bigthree.jpg) where you can see his left hand is smaller than the right, and the diameter of the wrist is also diminished. If you look at standing [photographs](http://nationalinterest.org/files/imagecache/resize-340/images/ChurchillTrumanStalin.jpg), his left arm is shorter than the right. Or perhaps the despot who had no qualms about sending people who displeased him to the kind attentions of [Beria](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria) had a really crappy tailor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stalin-mao-or-hitler-who-would-you-marry/646150.md?page=1)