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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 100 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If anyone is wondering about what's going on with some of the replies, there was a massively influential biography titled "The Private Life of Chairman Mao" that depicted Mao as basically a Genghis Khan level sexual predator and sold very well in the anglosphere. That it wound up being completely discredited as a sensationalist fabrication even by American neoliberal historians is of no consequence to its legacy among internet reactionaries.

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 55 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

I looked the author of that, expecting Montefiore since it's right his methods, and while it's surprisingly not Montefiore (i guess not enough pedophilia accussations for him), but dude named Li Zhisui, even his wiki is pretty much telling:

After emigrating to the United States, he wrote a biography of Mao entitled The Private Life of Chairman Mao, in which he described Mao as selfish, cruel, having a craving for young women, and poor personal hygiene.

After emigrating to the United States

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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

I looked the author of that, expecting Montefiore since it's right his methods,

It would've been incredibly funny if Semenbag Monsanto concidered himself a "China expert" alongside being a "Russia expert", but I suppose he didn't want to be completely discredited among actual historians as a sensationalist quack fanfiction writer

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

The "and he smelled bad" at the end torpedoed whatever credibility he may have had.

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[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

Thank you.

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