Stalin 'used secret laboratory to analyse Mao's excrement'

BBC ^ | 28 January 2016 | Steven Rosenberg

[Rebelbase]

A former Soviet agent says he has found evidence that Joseph Stalin spied on Mao Zedong, among others, by analysing excrement to construct psychological portraits.

According to Russian newspaper reports, in the 1940s Stalin's secret police had set up a special department to get its hands on people's faeces.

The ambitious aim: to analyse samples of foreign leaders' stools.

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[Rebelbase]

................................ "Facinating"

[proust]

“Dreams of my father.”

[ifinnegan]

Psychological profile by fecal analysis?

It was settled science.

[marktwain]

It could reveal a good bit about health, diet, and drug use.

[disndat]

I’ll pass.

[Palio di Siena]

I think we’ve done the same thing.
I think presidential scat is classified.
Lololol

[Billthedrill]

Hmm..."What did you do in the great Cold War, Daddy?"

"Well, son, I shoveled sh*t in Louisiana."

Patton was right. (Cue Twilight Zone music)

[concerned about politics]

I suppose they may have been able to figure out what foreign leaders had for dinner. They may have consumed more than their "fair share." (Stalin was a Socialist)
Not sharing is justification for war to a socialist.

[clearcarbon]

"Stalin 'used secret laboratory to analyse Mao's excrement'"

If fortune tellers can see the future in tea leaves, perhaps Stalin got his first glimpse of obama or sanders this way.

[Frank_2001]

“It could reveal a good bit about health, diet, and drug use.”

I’ll bet Mao ate a LOT of Chinese food! (And I’m not even a KGB agent!;)

[elcid1970]

Hey man, everybody already knows that Dear Leader’s s*** don’t stink!

[VTenigma]

That would be $h!+ for brains

[Ray76]

Castro is another coprophiliac. Must be a commie thing.

[Scrambler Bob]

I’ll pass.

Very smooooth.

PS aren’t the authorities looking for Barbara Striesand’s poop in connection with pollution off Malibu?

[AlaskaErik]

I believe the same was done by the CIA when Khrushchev visited.

[lurk]

That’s a crappy job.

I’m thinking the angels get a lot of laughs watching us.

[Busko]

Sounds like a crock of Sh!t to me. Lol.

[FirstFlaBn]

The unit conducting the analysis was probably called the poop troop.

Mao Tse Dump?

His Little Red Book was really TP.

[alexander_busek]

"[...] take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool [...]"

- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

[tumblindice]

Ya know, there was a Huffington article on Texas tough guy Chuck Norris: he sure passes some tough excrement.

Chuck’s poops flex their muscles in the bowl, refusing to be dismissed, unwilling to be flushed.

And Chuck Norris’ dog picks up his own waste, because Chuck Norris doesn’t take **** from anyone.