• ComradeSalad
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    9 months ago

    Castro was 6’ 3,

    Mandela was 6’ 1

    Fred Hampton was 5’ 10

    Rokossovsky was 6’ 6

    The Revolution comes in all shapes and sizes comrades. Size matters not. We will march together!

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        9 months ago

        I’m 5’7" in a good pair of walking shoes.

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          9 months ago

          I’m about to get some Doc Martens again, I think. Not for the height boost, just cuz they’re punk as hell 😎

          oh and my current shoes are full of holes lol

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      Nelson Mandela was not 6’4, at least not when he was older. Maybe when he was younger he was that tall. If I had to guess, I’d say around 185cm/ 6’1.

      Source: stood next to a “life size” Nelson Mandela statue. I was the same height

      Edit: Okay I decided to google it, and according to the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s website, he was 184cm tall. Close enough guess from me, turns out the statue really was life size.

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        9 months ago

        My mistake, he was listed at 6 foot 1/4 inch, and I accidentally misconstrued that as 6 foot 4.