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* [[Call to Agriculture]]: Cruelly subverted. Pol Pot's goal of turning Cambodia into a pastoral utopia led to nothing but starvation and death, and citizens were forced to abandon their homes and labour in the fields at gunpoint. |
* [[Call to Agriculture]]: Cruelly subverted. Pol Pot's goal of turning Cambodia into a pastoral utopia led to nothing but starvation and death, and citizens were forced to abandon their homes and labour in the fields at gunpoint. |
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* [[Commie Nazis]]: Sort of. The basic Khmer Rouge ideology was a racist perversion of communism, combining agrarian Maoism with a belief in Khmer racial supremacy. Their ultimate ambition was to forge an empire spanning all of Indochina. |
* [[Commie Nazis]]: Sort of. The basic Khmer Rouge ideology was a racist perversion of communism, combining agrarian Maoism with a belief in Khmer racial supremacy. Their ultimate ambition was to forge an empire spanning all of Indochina. |
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** Even the Nazis knew the basics of running a functional nation-state. |
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** Tellingly noted in John Pilger's famous documentary ''Cambodia: Year Zero'' is the fact that Communism was rarely even mentioned by the ruling elite. Most of the talk was about restoring the ancient Cambodian empire. |
** Tellingly noted in John Pilger's famous documentary ''Cambodia: Year Zero'' is the fact that Communism was rarely even mentioned by the ruling elite. Most of the talk was about restoring the ancient Cambodian empire. |
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** Pol Pot later abandoned even the pretense of Communism. In 1997 he said: ''When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.'' |
** Pol Pot later abandoned even the pretense of Communism. In 1997 he said: ''When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.'' |
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