I love all the backstory behind Che. His motorbike travels, his fierce rugby playing, the backstory behind how he got the nickname Che. Feel like me and him would be good mates.
Lol, I even like that he has asthma cos I can be like ayy same.
I love all the backstory behind Che. His motorbike travels, his fierce rugby playing, the backstory behind how he got the nickname Che. Feel like me and him would be good mates.
Lol, I even like that he has asthma cos I can be like ayy same.
Mao rehabilitated Emperor Puyi, a child-rapist who signed off on all Japan's war crimes in Manchuria, in order to dunk on Lenin.
"Mao had often noted that Lenin had Nicholas “II, the last Russian emperor, shot together with the rest of the Russian imperial family, as Lenin could not make the last tsar into a communist; making the last Chinese emperor into a Communist was intended to show the superiority of Chinese communism over Soviet communism.[234] Puyi was to be subjected to “remodeling” to make him into a Communist.”
And he succeeded lmao. Puyi in his later years was known for gardening and visiting a woman in the hospital everyday because he accidentally hit her with a bicycle.
If anyone hasn’t seen it, I highly recommend the movie The Last Emperor. Puyi wasn’t just your regular out-of-touch prick- he was basically a sadist who didn’t understand that other people actually existed, and he even collaborated with the Japanese during WWII. For Mao to have made him into a regular worthy worker like everyone else is extremely noteworthy and a testament to the Communist project in China.
Also it’s like 4 hours long so get nice and snug beforehand.
On that, the Wikipedia article has this to say:
The British historian Alex von Tunzelmann wrote that most people in the West know Puyi's story only from the 1987 film The Last Emperor, which downplays Puyi's cruelty considerably.
So apparently he was even worse than this movie portrays.
Fantastic movie I agree, but also read up on Puyi after. The movie leaves out, for instance, Puyis hobby of raping his boy servents, beating his eunuchs, wife, etc