The country is perhaps the greatest enemy of the United States of America. And it’s the largest land mass on the planet dominated by Communism.
China.
When one thinks of Communist China, one thinks of the one man who was largely responsible for the establishment of communism in a country that had a cultural history thousands of years old — a history he was largely responsible for destroying in a ‘cultural revolution.’
Mao Tse Tung.
Who was Mao — the man. And what was the reality behind the façade?
Let us peek behind the Peking curtain, and see the dirt behind the dogma.
Once a peasant, Mao Tse Tung rose to command the largest Communist Country in the world. In the process he was likely the cause of seventy million Chinese deaths.
His ineptitude was responsible for the starvation deaths of fifty million people, and the rest were liquidated at one time or another.
This was his real legacy.
It would be no surprise that a mass murderer on the scale that Mao engaged in might have a few – shall we say – naughty habits and nasty interests with respect to his private life. In fact, he had more than a few.
So, don’t be surprised. Instead, be educated about this dictator who made Hitler look like an amateur, and Stalin just a runner up.
You’ll have even more reasons to despise his memory — Mao not only had ‘feet of clay’ they were of unwashed clay.
Mao was a man of faith — in himself, and to narrow down the competition, in 1951 banned all religions in China. Centuries old traditions of Taoism and Confucianism were invalid. Buddha was banned, and the state became the only object of worship under Mao’s regime.
Another thing besides God that Mao didn’t believe in was personal hygiene. Because he never bathed or brushed his teeth. He had body lice.[1]
Unfortunately for the senses and sensibility of others, Mao had a strong belief in the health benefits bestowed by sexual activity… in spite of his hygienic atheism.
Mao was very interested in sex, and in addition to having had multiple wives, he was regularly supplied with ‘mistresses’ and on occasion ‘misters.’ His overindulgence resulted in him contracting gonorrhea and herpes.[2]
These maladies didn’t, however, stop him in his pursuit of fleshly pleasures and the young Chinese men and women who could assist him in his pursuit.
But Mao was more than a sex addict; he was a drug addict as well.
Due to insomnia, Mao became a barbiturate addict. And as the use of narcotics can also interfere with intestinal functioning, he was also overly concerned with his bowel habits, as he was plagued by constipation. (There’s just something so right about that.)[3]
Besides the damsels and the drugs, dressing himself wasn’t in Mao’s repertoire. Others put on his socks, helped him into his pants, and combed his hair.[4]
But sometimes, Mao didn’t bother getting dressed and held meetings naked, while he scratched and searched for lice on his person. His search was most likely frequently rewarded.
Interesting that his main form of physical exercise was swimming, yet bathing was not in his repertoire.
One thing that was frequently on his things to do, was to hold ballroom dances at his palace. Even though dancing had been forbidden to the rest of the Chinese as being decadent and bourgeois.
Rank had its privileges, and there were fewer with more ‘rank’ than Mao in his personal habits.
Sometimes — in fact — often, his dancing led to more horizontally inclined activities, and between 1953-1957 it was alleged he had ‘danced” with three thousand concubines.[5]
As he got older, he was more into group sex, and on occasion had five women in bed with him at the same time. To augment his waning ‘bedroom powers’ in the 1960s, Mao was regularly injected with ground deer antler powder.[6]
He also had ‘a special sloping bed was designed for his use which was used by him to seduce countless peasant girls brought by Communist cadres for satisfying his sexual cravings.’[7]
Now, one can imagine the personal sacrifice it must have been to those dedicated to the Chinese cultural revolution to sleep with a man who never washed his genitals. But instead, according to a quote attributed to him ‘I wash myself inside the bodies of my women.’[8]
What a gentleman!
Besides his other ‘qualities’ Mao was a dedicated hypocrite. Although he had engaged in sexual relations with men, his political viewpoint was that homosexuality was an illness, and homosexuals were prosecuted if found out.[9]
Anyone who has lived a bit in this world has been witness to the curtain being pulled back on the worlds’ ‘wizards.’ We find out they are degenerates.
Televangelists decrying sins of the flesh have been found to be sexual perverts.
Presidents who spoke of the conquest of space turned out to be philanderers who were only interested in sexual conquests as a perquisite of their power.
Church and political leaders are discovered to be lechers, and financial ‘whiz kid’ types are found out to be frauds.
It’s such a frequent occurrence, it has become a cliché.
Yet this dirt can sometimes yield diamonds to our eyes.
Perhaps most satisfying, is the discovery that the mass murderers of the world who have risen to power over a nation, are in their personal lives, degenerate — weak and filthy men.
Mao serves as a ‘shining’ example.
He was personally filthy, sexually perverted, hypocritical, and living a life of luxury in a land of poverty where materialism was looked upon as sin, and the enjoyment of personal sensual pleasure was almost seditious.
It’s a lesson to be remembered. When we vote, when we choose sides in a national and international conflict.
Just who are the leaders really? Just how true are their own lives to the litany that they espouse?
[1]Mao Tse-tung (1893 - 1976) – his habits and his health South African Medical Journal, May 2009 https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0256-95742009000500012
[2] IBID.
[3] Op.Cit.
[4] MAO’S PRIVATE LIFE AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY FACTS & DETAILS https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/sub6/item71.html
[5] IBID.
[6] OP.CIT.
[7] MAO TSE TUNG THE UNBRIDALED PHILANDERER SUNDAY GUARDIAN 3/5/22 https://sundayguardianlive.com/news/mao-zedong-unbridled-philanderer#google_vignette
[8] IBID.
[9] LIFE IS GETTING HARDER FOR LGBTQ IN CHINA, 2/13/23 CATALYST PLANET, https://www.catalystplanet.com/travel-and-social-action-stories/life-is-getting-harder-for-lgbtq-in-china