As the editor and publisher here, I find it unacceptable that people use a post to discuss completely irrelevant issues. Chas Freeman is one of the greatest diplomats alive. I find it indecent that this discussion about Mao and his alleged relations to young girls continue. This must end here because it breaks every kind of cultured conversation about a specific article. Thanks /Jan Oberg
Mao was a real man , what they today call a real Macho. But he was also a peasant all his life, and believed in old superstitions. For instance he believed that an old man can stay healthy and be a strongman, when he takes a virgins virginity. A widespread superstition among chinese villagers. So as a beloved leader with unrestricted power, his bootlickers stood ready with virgins to serve the great leader. It is estimated that Mao in his lifetime slept with several thousand virgins, many 13 or 14 years old. How many children he has fostered is not known.
It is easy to condemn this today, but one must remember that the times have changed. Today you would call him a pedophile, but one must remember all the good things Mao did for the chinese population. Without Mao there would not have bee a commusnist China today.
You may be correct, but by his late 70s, Mao was mostly impotent, and though he would still fondle young girls brought to him, there was little actual sex taking place according to people in a position to know.
As many have said, Mao's reputation would be much higher had he died right after, say, starting the 'Hundred Flowers' movement, and not been able to inflict the Great Leap and Cultural Revolution on China.
As the editor and publisher here, I find it unacceptable that people use a post to discuss completely irrelevant issues. Chas Freeman is one of the greatest diplomats alive. I find it indecent that this discussion about Mao and his alleged relations to young girls continue. This must end here because it breaks every kind of cultured conversation about a specific article. Thanks /Jan Oberg
Mao was a real man , what they today call a real Macho. But he was also a peasant all his life, and believed in old superstitions. For instance he believed that an old man can stay healthy and be a strongman, when he takes a virgins virginity. A widespread superstition among chinese villagers. So as a beloved leader with unrestricted power, his bootlickers stood ready with virgins to serve the great leader. It is estimated that Mao in his lifetime slept with several thousand virgins, many 13 or 14 years old. How many children he has fostered is not known.
It is easy to condemn this today, but one must remember that the times have changed. Today you would call him a pedophile, but one must remember all the good things Mao did for the chinese population. Without Mao there would not have bee a commusnist China today.
You may be correct, but by his late 70s, Mao was mostly impotent, and though he would still fondle young girls brought to him, there was little actual sex taking place according to people in a position to know.
Yes, how lucky the small 12, 13 and 14 year old chinese girls must have been, that the old pig Mao became impotent
Yes.
As many have said, Mao's reputation would be much higher had he died right after, say, starting the 'Hundred Flowers' movement, and not been able to inflict the Great Leap and Cultural Revolution on China.