>executes all the intellectuals, teachers and scientists
>forces everyone to work in farms
>people agree and this goes on for a good 4 years
Why was /pol/ pot so based?
JUST
>>63109
Why are people suddenly shitposting so much about this guy? This board is less than 2 days old and I've already seen more Pol Pot discussion than in 8 years of 4chan.
/pol/ pot was a mistake
>agree
>>63198
>sees one thread about pol pot
>jumps to the hasty conclusion that he has seen more threads about pol pot in /his/ than anywhere in 4chan for the past 8 years
>>63109
>People agree
No they didn't they fucking hated him
>>63245
4 years is still a long time m8
The people literally did nothing to rise up to based /pol/ other than hope and pray that vietnam would invade them.
>>63232
You clearly just showed up to /his/. There were at least a half dozen threads in the first 24 hours of the board's existence.
>>63287
>hope and pray that Vietnam would invade them
And thank good they did.
>On 17 April, it is 25 years since Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. In the calendar of fanaticism, this was Year Zero; as many as two million people, a fifth of Cambodia's population, were to die as a consequence. To mark the anniversary, the evil of Pol Pot will be recalled, almost as a ritual act for voyeurs of the politically dark and inexplicable. For the managers of western power, no true lessons will be drawn, because no connections will be made to them and to their predecessors, who were Pol Pot's Faustian partners. Yet, without the complicity of the west, Year Zero might never have happened, nor the threat of its return maintained for so long.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2014/04/how-thatcher-gave-pol-pot-hand
>After Vietnam had invaded Cambodia and set up a new government, the ousted Khmer Rouge leadership, including Pol Pot and Nuon Chea, retreated to the jungle along the Thailand-Cambodia border. Instead of becoming pariahs, they continued to play a significant role in Cambodian politics for the next two decades. Child at refugee campThe Khmer Rouge would likely not have survived without the support of its old patron China and a surprising new ally: the United States. Norodom Sihanouk, now in exile after briefly serving as head of state under the Khmer Rouge, formed a loose coalition with the guerillas to expel the Vietnamese from Cambodia. The United States gave the Sihanouk-Khmer Rouge coalition millions of dollars in aid while enforcing an economic embargo against the Vietnamese-backed Cambodian government. The Carter administration helped the Khmer Rouge keep its seat at the United Nations, tacitly implying that they were still the country's legitimate rulers.
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/cambodia/tl04.html
>>63309
>-5.4% GDP growth
