“Mao had plainly done his homework.

“Mao had plainly done his homework. He knew how poorly educated Khrushchev was, and he also knew a good deal about his weaknesses. Above all, he had discovered that the portly Russian had never learned to swim.

Mao, in contrast, loved swimming, something that his party made repeated use of in its propaganda. So when Mao turned up at the talks of August 3, 1958 dressed in a bathrobe and slippers, Khrushchev immediately suspected trouble, and his fears were realized when an aide produced an outsize pair of green bathing trunks and Mao insisted that his guest join him in his outdoor pool.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/khrushchev-in-water-wings-on-mao-humiliation-and-the-sino-soviet-split-80852370/

Me too, Chairman. Me too

Gonna be awesome ten years from now when the CCP remotely disables all my electronics because I posted this

Gonna be awesome ten years from now when the CCP remotely disables all my electronics because I posted this

@jalefkowit don’t you mean ICE?

Me too, Chairman. Me too

@binford2k Thank you for the correction, ICE definitely gets real mad when people post unflattering pictures of Chairman Mao