sam says on 27/Jul/10
Why is it when there is a powerful leader in a powerful country that doesn't bend down to America do Americans say they have an inferiority complex? I wonder though why everyone is ignoring 174cm for Stalin

Eric Hobsbawm says on 5/Jul/10
The present writer, who saw stalins emnalmed body in the red square maulsoleum before it was removed in 1957 can remember the shock of seeing a man so tiny and yet so all-powerful. Significantly, all films and photographs concealed the fact he was only 5ft 3ins tall.

Daniel says on 22/May/10
Rob, in that photo you linked no way was Truman 5'9'' if the other two were in the 5'6'' - 5'7'' region, for he doesn't look more than 1 single inch taller than them.

hmm says on 26/Feb/10
I think more Mao was around 175-176 cm.

TJ says on 24/Feb/10
I saw that too bogger and I was immediately struck by how often silly women in large heels say "Ooh I could look him right in the eye." I don't for one second believe that the 5'2 grandmother was the same height as Stalin.

bogger says on 21/Feb/10
A women on antiques roadshow said her 5'2 grandmother was the same height as stalin.

TL says on 7/Feb/10
It is a police card in which it is told that he was 1.74 cm in a youth.
Click Here

mao says on 23/Aug/09
will you make a page for Mao Zedong?

i believe he stood 180 cm tall in his prime, but had bad posture later in life

when he is standing next to Nixon shaking hands, i can believe that a younger Mao would have been just as tall if not taller then Nixon.

guyfrommars says on 19/Aug/09
I read that Lenin was 5ft5, Stalin 5ft4 and Kruschev 5ft3. I believe however that Stalin was closer to 5ft6. Funny thing is that most of the propaganda movies shown Stalin (played by the same actor all the time) as a big, bulky man, towering as the great leader of the USSR. The paintings also portayed him as a big man, which was a huge exaggeration of the truth.

Anonymous says on 16/Aug/09
I heard in my Russian History class that Stalin was 5'4''.

anonymouz says on 3/Jul/09
(though Putin is good at judo and very athletic, so maybe he doesn't have such an inferiority complex)

...maybe, he became an avid sporter to cope with this inferiortiy complex?

Random says on 24/Jun/09
in response to "It seems mostly the essential criteria to be a leader, in Europe, is in fact to be of average height"

Vladimir Putin seems to be of very similar height, at around 5'5". coincidence, i think not... (though Putin is good at judo and very athletic, so maybe he doesn't have such an inferiority complex)

Mike says on 19/Jun/09
Actually according to the official medical record,Mao is somewhere around 183cm. To Dutch dude,so far as i konw,the average height of chinese men is 5 ft 8.