Mao Tse Tung---worst hygiene in a dictator

[Zuni]

1. Rarely bathed. Even if he did, he disliked soap and water method. Preffered to be scrubbed with steaming towels.
2. Did not brush teeth. He preffered to rinse mouth with teas. Apparently, his teeth were pretty rotten.
3. Did not like flush toilets. For years after he became the most powerful man in China, he defecated in the palace gardens. Finally Zhou Enlai was able to convince him to use an indoor bathroom.
4. He often had an assortment of body lice and skin infections. He often just dropped his pants in public to scratch himself.

Mao did manage to sleep with thousands of women though. He had huge orgies in his customized bed. He was very crude in his language, with an apparent obsession with farting.
He also liked to make dirty jokes to shock people. His doctor was chiding him about hygiene when Mao informed him that when he was with girls 'I wash my prick in their cunts'.

[dae]

1. EWWEEEEEE, now that's some stuff I didn't know. Sometimes,

ignorance is bliss, or at least a calm stomach. :puke:

[hatrack]

2. Hitler had amazingly bad teeth - also farted constantly

At one point in the 1930s, a member of the (exiled) Kaiser's family managed to offend der Fuhrer at an art gallery. He had just left a room blessed by his (yes, there's actually a word for uncontrollable farting) meteorism. She hissed "My God, open the windows - it smells in here!!" Hitler overheard and was not amused by the comment.

There's also an appalling account of his oral hygiene in "The Last Battle" by Cornelius Ryan. Apparently by 1945, he only had about a dozen of his own teeth left, and most of them were in mushy, sorry shape.

[Zuni]

8. Another one of Hitler's embarrasing conditions

was his sexual perversions. It is rumored that he could only get off if he was urinated on (known as Unanism). No joke. A Nazi Party leader named Gregor Strasser (the leader of the left, hardcore anti-capitalist wing of the Nazi party) saw Geli Raubal(Hitler's neice and girlfriend) at a function and she was upset. During a talk she revealed Der Fuhrer's need for her to urinate on him when he wanted to ejaculate.

Hitler also was inbred. His parents were kissing cousins.

[Zuni]

9. The Last Battle

along with Ryan's other books is among my all time favorites.
Check out Hugh Trevor Roper's 'Last days of Hitler'.

Hitler also suffered from extreme halitosis, as well as either syphilis or parkinsons disease (historians are often conflicted on this, but his personal physician, accordcing to Albert Speer, was a VD specialist)

[mlawson]

11. All that roughage from being a vegetarian.

As I am. Not to defend hitler, mind you.

[mobuto]

3. Mao also suffered from syphillis

and had his male masseurs pleasure him.

[BurtWorm]

4. The Private Life of Chairman Mao, by Li Zhisui

is a horribly fascinating account of all of that.

[Character Assassin]

5. That, my friend, is an amazing book. My roommate actually knew him

The author, that is.

[demgrrrll]

6. Nasty! I read a similar account in Vanity Fair years ago. Apparently

he would tell his procurers that he needed " the waters of yin"
when he wanted them to go get women for him. Yuck.

[Zuni]

7. I read this in another biography

called Mao: A Life by Phillip Short

[Zuni]

10. That is a book I would love to read

I love reading about the personal lives of dictators. It fascinates me to no end. Soon I will do a post about the really bizarre personal life of Russia's 1st Tsar, Ivan IV (the terrible)