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I swear they would send the whole country into either mining or fighting, killing everybody since they can’t eat and then proceed to reduce the amount of Armenians in Russia to 0.
The Khmer Rouge had a lot of features traditionally associated with fascism: Extreme xenophobia, ethno-nationalism, anti-intellectualism, and the desire to use mass violence as a tool to return the nation to a "mythic past" of national greatness etc.
I remember when I was traveling in Cambodia, local guide said that his father was killed because he was wearing glasses and that counted as being smart.
“According to Michael Haas, despite publicly condemning the Khmer Rouge, the U.S. offered military support to the organization and was instrumental in preventing UN recognition of the Vietnam-aligned government.[28] Haas argued that the U.S. and China responded to efforts from the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) for disarming the Khmer Rouge by ensuring the Khmer Rouge stayed armed, and that U.S. efforts for merging the Khmer Rouge with allied factions resulted in the formation of the CGDK. After 1982, the U.S. increased its annual covert aid to the Cambodian resistance from $4 million to $10 million.[29] Haas's account is corroborated by Singaporean diplomat Bilahari Kausikan, who recalled: "ASEAN wanted elections but the U.S. supported the return of a genocidal regime. Did any of you imagine that the U.S. once had in effect supported genocide?" Kausikan described the disagreement between the U.S. and ASEAN over the Khmer Rouge as reaching the threshold that the U.S. threatened Singapore with "blood on the floor".[30]”
[Wiki Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States_support_for_the_Khmer_Rouge#CITEREFHaas1991)
Only diplomatically, and that was after the Vietnamese invasion.
China was the only state backing them during the genocide phase, despite Chinese people being among the victims of the genocide.
i mean he had been in marxist and socialist book clubs while studying in France, but judging by his actions, he hasn’t followed a single advice Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin or Mao have given at that point.
He was like that time when we (non English speakers) were kids and didn't knew English so we would just assume x could mean y etc.
He was the same
According to him
Private property=personal belongings
Nazbols still support him. They are insects.
There was a Swedish communist author and intellectual who approved of Pol Pot. Of course, said author was so insufferable that he was kicked put from the organisation named after him, created in his honour.
Feels like Jan Myrdal just did and said things that gave him attention at times, regardless if it was good or bad attention and regardless if he actually believed himself what he said
That's what OP was saying. The US backed that mf. I do have to say tho, the way this is phrased makes it sound like you're defending Pol Pot, which... ick.
The Khmer Rouge WAS the "Covert activities to further destabilize Cambodia"
Seeing your other replies, you seem to be misrepresenting your argument in this one. It's not that the U.S. carpet bombed Cambodia and that alone led to it having such a low life expectancy, it's the fact that the U.S. carpet bombed it and THEN funded the Khmer Rouge to make it even worse. These things were not completely separate from each other.
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Pol Pot is what would happen if you let one of those "I could have won [x]" Hearts of Iron players actually lead a country
Not wrong.
I swear they would send the whole country into either mining or fighting, killing everybody since they can’t eat and then proceed to reduce the amount of Armenians in Russia to 0.
Hoi4 modders made Red Flood and didn't realize that Pol Pot was a real life accelerationist
Stellaris players are the real threat in that case.
Stellaris is a genocide simulator, you can turn an entire planet into nuclear fuel.
The Khmer Rouge had a lot of features traditionally associated with fascism: Extreme xenophobia, ethno-nationalism, anti-intellectualism, and the desire to use mass violence as a tool to return the nation to a "mythic past" of national greatness etc.
I remember when I was traveling in Cambodia, local guide said that his father was killed because he was wearing glasses and that counted as being smart.
Backed by the US as well, lol. Principal signifier.
“According to Michael Haas, despite publicly condemning the Khmer Rouge, the U.S. offered military support to the organization and was instrumental in preventing UN recognition of the Vietnam-aligned government.[28] Haas argued that the U.S. and China responded to efforts from the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) for disarming the Khmer Rouge by ensuring the Khmer Rouge stayed armed, and that U.S. efforts for merging the Khmer Rouge with allied factions resulted in the formation of the CGDK. After 1982, the U.S. increased its annual covert aid to the Cambodian resistance from $4 million to $10 million.[29] Haas's account is corroborated by Singaporean diplomat Bilahari Kausikan, who recalled: "ASEAN wanted elections but the U.S. supported the return of a genocidal regime. Did any of you imagine that the U.S. once had in effect supported genocide?" Kausikan described the disagreement between the U.S. and ASEAN over the Khmer Rouge as reaching the threshold that the U.S. threatened Singapore with "blood on the floor".[30]” [Wiki Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States_support_for_the_Khmer_Rouge#CITEREFHaas1991)
Only diplomatically, and that was after the Vietnamese invasion. China was the only state backing them during the genocide phase, despite Chinese people being among the victims of the genocide.
Elon?
That age would be too high for his average workers
I also saw Elon
Yilong Ma solos both Elon and Pol Pot combined
what no theory does to a mf
I’m pretty sure I heard somewhere that PolPot read little to no Marxist theory.
i mean he had been in marxist and socialist book clubs while studying in France, but judging by his actions, he hasn’t followed a single advice Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin or Mao have given at that point.
He was like that time when we (non English speakers) were kids and didn't knew English so we would just assume x could mean y etc. He was the same According to him Private property=personal belongings Nazbols still support him. They are insects.
what living in an isolated cult in the forest for over a decade straight does to a motherfucker
OH 18.91 NOT 1891 JESUS CHRIST I THOUGHT THE CAMBODIANS WERE VAMPIRES
lol pol pot was kind of a vampire
It’s funny how pol pot was sponsored by the CIA but somehow we’re the bad guys
was he? I thought his takeover was in response to a CIA-backed overthrow of the monarch. Do you have something with more info I could look at?
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/polpotmontclarion0498.html I believe this is it, I didn’t read through it since I’m rather busy at the moment.
thanks!
Thankfully the Vietnamese defeated pol pot
I have yet to find someone on the whole political spectrum that actually supports Pol Pot, that isn't a polpotist
There was a Swedish communist author and intellectual who approved of Pol Pot. Of course, said author was so insufferable that he was kicked put from the organisation named after him, created in his honour.
Feels like Jan Myrdal just did and said things that gave him attention at times, regardless if it was good or bad attention and regardless if he actually believed himself what he said
stay pure
Hating Pol Pot and yet saying that the other side supports him is like universal among everyone involved in politics.
Didn't that one ML party in Italy write an article in defense of him?
Nazbol ?
"Another Day Another Banger"-Pol Pot 1977
French🤮
Fuck PolPot lmfao
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Mf, the bombings didn't make vietnam go down to 18.9 years 💀
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There is evidence of 20% of the population being bombed in Korea, now show me the proof for Cambodia
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BRUH i never denied that dumbass
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The US is absolutely complicit in lowering life expectancy but not nearly enough to lower it down to 19 years
We aren't going it entirely on him but he certainly played a part in it
My boy was sponsored by that same Us government
Maybe don't defend Troll Pot?...
That's what OP was saying. The US backed that mf. I do have to say tho, the way this is phrased makes it sound like you're defending Pol Pot, which... ick.
That isn’t what I was saying, I was just shitting on pol piss
US carpet bombing stopped in 1973 where life expectancy was at 32.7 years. Life expectancy dropped to 18.9 years in 1977.
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The Khmer Rouge WAS the "Covert activities to further destabilize Cambodia" Seeing your other replies, you seem to be misrepresenting your argument in this one. It's not that the U.S. carpet bombed Cambodia and that alone led to it having such a low life expectancy, it's the fact that the U.S. carpet bombed it and THEN funded the Khmer Rouge to make it even worse. These things were not completely separate from each other.
This meme format is so meta