My history teacher has commented on this a few times, and from any pictures in my history book of Stalin, he seems to have his left hand either out of the picture, disreetly hidden or in his pocket. Is it true that his left hand was shrivelled or whithered?
2007-12-30 20:58:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Looking at a BBC link it says that he bacame left handed because of an injury to his right hand so maybe he had a whithered right hand either?
2007-12-30 21:01:30 · update #1
sorry I spelt *withered wrong
2007-12-30 21:06:25 · update #2
He had a weak left hand. It stopped to develop and begin to atrophy when he was hitted with a cart when he was a kid. After that he tried to hide his hand in a lapel of his coat and not to show it to the strangers for the rest of his life.
However his right arm was normal, he was a right-hand man and used it without problems.
2007-12-30 21:20:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Stalin Right Hand
2017-01-12 14:38:57 · answer #2 · answered by leatherwood 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One arm was shorter than the other. otherwise it worked fine. However, if you observe Stalin in films he has the longer arm raised to make it appear there is no difference.
2007-12-31 04:01:09 · answer #3 · answered by Philip L 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
and in one of those ironies of history Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany had a withered left hand too. Growing up in the fiercely athletic and competitive Germany, not to mention with his Royal cousins in England, gave Willey a bit of a complex......a military / industrial complex...
2007-12-30 23:26:37 · answer #4 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋