Feb. 6th, 2025

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In 1928 while Yang [Mao’s first wife] was still alive, Mao got married again, to a young girl from the countryside, He Zizhen, who agreed rather reluctantly to become his “revolutionary companion”. She was to pay a heavy price, suffering through Long March and repeated pregnancies and miscarriages until Mao in turn abandoned her for a younger, more glamorous woman. His last and final marriage was to the Shanghai actress Jiang Qing. When that marriage in turn soured he preferred to avoid divorce and simply took mistresses, sometimes several at once. It was easy enough for Mao to get them among his nurses and assistants or from special army company of dancers and singers. “Selecting imperial concubines” was how a senior general described it. Mao preferred young, simple girls who felt deeply honored to be chosen by the great man, even to the point of taking price in catching a venereal disease from him. When his doctor suggested that the chairman might stop his sexual activities while the disease was being treated, Mao refused: “If it is not hurting me”, he said airily, “then it doesn’t matter”. As far as hygiene was concerned, Mao’s solution was more sex: “I wash myself inside the bodies of my women”.
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За последний месяц поднялась тема корпоративного долга в РФ. Например, я впервые услышал об этом в интервью «Jake Broe - Putin is Finished» 20 января 2025. Сегодня я решил разобраться, про что там речь.
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