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Ludovico

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Q: Is Chairman Mao's corpse real?

The Great Helmsman's bloated orange corpse is on display in Tiananmen Square. I've seen it, it's pretty nauseating, but is it real? I've people swearing it is, and others who swear it isn't.

12 years 48 weeks ago in General - Beijing

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wenna7

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I assume it‘s not real, just assume, I've never seen it.

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12 years 48 weeks ago

xerxes

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as far as i know chinese do cremation i think. so i think maybe his body is not real. chinese artists are brillant maybe they given him the appearence like that.

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12 years 48 weeks ago

PoutineDuFion

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I've seen it and it has to be real. I can tell because of if was fake it was, it would lose the reach of it.

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12 years 48 weeks ago

Getting halp from moar and moar people is like spin-o-rama high-fiving new friends on answers.echinacities.com with a tip of the hat finishing move.

techezee

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Chinese law requires cremation of all the dead. But if it's Chairman Mao, maybe they kept him preserved, but I highly doubt it would be real.

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beijoe

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I've seen it...looks a bit waxy. For me it sorta like UFOs not convinced either way.

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12 years 47 weeks ago

Spiderboenz

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It's China, so of course it isn't real.

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10 years 4 weeks ago

Scandinavian

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I heard it is a Ronald McDonald figure they've put make up on... next time check the oversized shoes.

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10 years 4 weeks ago

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