Mao’s Crystal Coffin

     Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 28, 2015
     Category: Body | Celebrities | Death | Politics | 1970s | Asia





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Hey, Hitler was responsible for a lot of deaths also but he didn't get placed in a display box. Nor did Stalin.
Posted by KDP on 10/28/15 at 02:24 PM
Hitler died in disgrace and Stalin didn't want to be second fiddle to Lenin.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 10/28/15 at 03:47 PM
He looks a bit stiff there.
Posted by Gator Guy on 10/28/15 at 09:24 PM
The guy in the video mentioned mangoes. Here's the whole story: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-mao-mango-cult-of-1968/
Posted by ges on 10/28/15 at 10:30 PM
@KDP: Hitler's body was doused in gas and burnt crispy. That would have made a whole different kind of display. As for Stalin, maybe they just didn't think they needed to give him a fancy sneeze guard to protect him from errant mucus.

I read a funny (and scary) thing about how Stalin is viewed in modern times. On one hand we have a Russian court in 2009, ruling on a suit by Stalin's grandson, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, against the newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, ruled that referring to Stalin as a "bloodthirsty cannibal" was not libel. While on the other half of all the respondents in a poll of Russian youth aged from 16 to 19, agreed Stalin was a wise leader.

He was definitely a psycho, but a charismatic psycho who knew how to rally the populace.
Posted by Miles on 10/29/15 at 02:54 AM
And that he had in common with Hitler.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 10/29/15 at 07:05 AM
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