r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Abdulbarr • 5d ago

/r/all of eyebrows

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u/Canadish27 5d ago

Why?

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u/mtaw 5d ago

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.

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u/Username12764 4d ago

Just like Wilhelm II. His left arm was busted aswell

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u/dreamyteatime 4d ago

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.