Comments by "Pyromania101" (@pyromania1018) on "Jiang Qing: Blood and Revenge in the Cultural Revolution" video.

  1. This deserves a movie. Or at least a book.
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  2. Elena Ceausescu saw her as a role model, and Jiang was all too happy to take Elena under her wing, urging her to not just be a side character. Elena turned out to be even worse, being not only vicious and vain, but also incredibly stupid.
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  3. Actually, she was released pretty quickly and attended Moscow East University before returning to China in 1947. She was bullied and harassed by Jiang and never got to see the daughter she'd had with Mao. She lived to see Jiang's fall, but died alone in 1984.
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  4.  @Michael-590  She was also a total bully to her household staff. After one of her husband's gawdy birthday celebrations, he told the staff that they could eat the leftovers, which included a large birthday cake. After he walked out of the room, she ordered the leftovers disposed of instead, sneering that the staff didn't deserve such a gift.
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  5. ​ @enqrbit Eh, Wu was ruthless when it came to maintaining power, but she was an efficient ruler who chose her ministers based on merit rather than wealth... which is something her Confucian critics threw a tantrum about.
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  6.  @Michael-590  Their eldest son, Nicu, was much like Uday Hussein, who was, unsurprisingly, a friend of his. Both were sadistic hedonists with a penchant for rape.
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  7.  @Intercaust  Ever heard of the "Lost Cause of the Confederacy" or the "Clean Wehrmacht" myth?
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  8.  @omega1231  You also cannot have the leaders' names go from one line or page in a book to the next one, and they have to be capitalized.
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  9.  @sbevexlr848  Too bad the soldiers were in such a hurry to kill them that they opened fire before the cameraman was completely ready.
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  10. No, it was a legit mental institution, though people had been tossed in there wrongfully. TBC, she was suffering from PTSD brought about by the Long March, but she recovered quickly and was released. The Soviets actually took pity on her and, after letting her attend a university, arranged for her return to China in 1947. Jiang bullied her incessantly, even keeping her from seeing her daughter, but Xhixhen lived long enough to watch her hated rival go down.
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  11.  @redram5150  Awesome.
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