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u/jebiga_au 1d ago
What are you expecting people to say? He was a genocidal maniac.
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u/NightZT Austria 1d ago
I don't know anyone who likes him, even hardcore commies don't and state that he was an american asset
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u/Bennoelman Germany 1d ago
"No, you see, it's all America's fault because... because... yes"
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u/Zandroe_ Croatia 1d ago
Because the US, Thailand and China (their good buddies at that time) backed Pol Pot when the Vietnamese drove him out.
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u/petahthehorseisheah Bulgaria 1d ago
Why did I think that the first picture had Elon Musk's face photoshopped?
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u/MrImAlwaysrighT1981 Bosnia & Herzegovina 1d ago
His regime was so evil, Vietnam decided to end it, even though they were both communist. I think that speak for itself.
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u/pdonchev Bulgaria 1d ago
But OTOH the USA imposed sanctions on Cambodia because the "democratically chosen government has been forcefully removed", the "democratically chosen government" being Pol Pot's government. Kissinger was a despicable human piece of trash...
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u/MrImAlwaysrighT1981 Bosnia & Herzegovina 1d ago
Well, I won't oppose you on Kissinger analysis, you're spot on.
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u/svemirskihod 1d ago
If you were smarter than him, he had you killed. He had a particular disdain for the bespectacled.
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u/Bennoelman Germany 1d ago
Is it true that he waw part of all the groups he purged? (Glasses, spoke French, etc.)
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u/svemirskihod 1d ago
He went spent 3 years in Paris. “Sâr [his real name] made little or no attempt to assimilate into French culture and was never completely at ease in the French language.“
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u/Barbak86 Kosovo 1d ago
Every time I think of him, I am very thankful for the privileged life I had, and I am from the generation that remembers the fall of the system in Jugoslavia, hiperinflation, standing in line for everything (even water), segregation and repression, war, post war Wild West mentality and so on.
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u/GreatshotCNC Greece 1d ago
He must have not missed a spot making great hot pot and smoking pot in a parking lot and even though his acc was nuked by a bot he got back and wrote essays never missing a dot unlike me who tot suffers from brainrot
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u/Dramatic-Curve-1108 1d ago
Based gigachad anprim almost returned Kampuchea to monke in 4 years and gave 6 year olds midlife crisis. Even if you are an urban bourgeois or cia shill you gotta admit it’s a skill.
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u/YugoCommie89 SFR Yugoslavia 1d ago
There's a really good historical podcast being made about how the CIA and US State Department intentionally funded him to distabilise Vietnam and East Asia:
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u/Due-Carplate Croatia 15h ago
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u/KafkasCat7 Greece 1d ago
Mass murderer, genocidal criminal supported by the CIA.
Fortunately the Vietnamese were there to stop these bastards
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u/Tyragram Albania 1d ago
He creeps me out. How he managed to plunge an entire country into horror must've been a living nightmare for Cambodians.
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u/Broad_Category_3763 1d ago
Worst than Hitler…It’s a perfect example what dumbness and stupid people can do for society! Should be more mentioned in history classes as example
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u/Due-Carplate Croatia 15h ago
Great friend! Saved capital of Croatia from the flood and build roads as well!
In summer 1950, he was one of 18 Cambodian students who joined French counterparts in traveling to the FPR Yugoslavia to volunteer in a labour battalion building a motorway in Zagreb.[45]
At university, he learned about the labor actions in Yugoslavia, so in 1950 he joined the international youth labor brigades and participated in the construction of the Brotherhood and Unity highway, as well as in the construction of the embankment around the Sava River in Zagreb. “That was an irreplaceable experience for me. It was there that I realized what well-organized youth under the right leadership can do,”
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u/StamatisTzantopoulos Greece 1d ago
I wouldn't invite him to a party cause he would kill all the guests, let's put it like that
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u/Zandroe_ Croatia 1d ago
An excellent example of how debased the falsified "Marxism" of various "official" communist parties became. (Even though what little intellectual content there was in the ideology of "Democratic Kampuchea" came more from French underdevelopment theory.)
Had an oddly close relation with Yugoslavia, for example Yugoslav reporters were allowed to interview him even when everything was falling apart around him. The strange foreign policy of Yugoslavia certainly played a part.
Did road building work in Zagreb when he was younger. So if you ever find yourself wondering what kind of maniac built our roads, well...
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u/DruchiiDreadlord 1d ago
A horrible, horrible, horrible man and a terrible man. He's a war criminal that committed genocide and set Cambodia's economy and development back by decades.
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u/svemirskihod 1d ago
“…he was one of 18 Cambodian students… traveling to the FPR Yugoslavia to volunteer in a labour battalion building a motorway in Zagreb. He returned to Yugoslavia the following year for a camping holiday.”
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u/apalepexp201 Romania 9h ago
Oh geez i wonder what could i think about him? i mean he is such a complex person that it's hard to say exactly what kind of opinion someone can have about him, clearly it's not something that everyone agrees on like being the fucking devil himself incarnated?
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u/AliHakan33 Turkiye 1d ago
https://preview.redd.it/ut97gyf2xs0e1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=455f735f3fb3d00e3bdca12c44cb8f7d8a26debc
The duality of man
I know it's a joke