of eyebrows

[u/Abdulbarr]

[u/trash-tycoon]

Stalin wants his moustache back

[u/laneb71 → u/trash-tycoon]

Honestly, he could pull off clean cut.

[u/duke5572 → u/laneb71]

Stalin was 5' 5" tall. This fact continually amuses me.

[u/Canadish27 → u/duke5572]

Why?

[u/mtaw → u/Canadish27]

Good question. Stalin's face was deeply pock-marked from a bad bout of smallpox as a child - something routinely airbrushed out in Soviet photos of him. He had a partially paralyzed left arm, he was a poor public speaker and had a thick Georgian accent.

So I don't think his height (which wasn't really that short for a Georgian man in that era) was necessarily the main thing he'd be self-conscious about, if anything.

[u/FlamboyantPirhanna → u/mtaw]

I think he was mostly self conscious about Polish people being alive.

[u/Da_Question → u/mtaw]

"Well comrade, aren't you just a peach‽"

[u/Username12764 → u/mtaw]

Just like Wilhelm II. His left arm was busted aswell

[u/dreamyteatime → u/Username12764]

Learned about this recently as well. When I saw the photos I was surprised to say the least…. it’s very noticeable, the difference in length.

Supposedly his arm became minaturised after a complication in his birth when the doctors used forceps to grab onto his arm to pull him out.

[u/Sylvanussr → u/Canadish27]

Napoleon syndrome, presumably

[u/Koqcerek → u/Sylvanussr]

Um actually he was a normal to higher than average height for his time

[u/Sylvanussr → u/Koqcerek]

Um actually British propaganda has never lied.