Dumbest dictator in history: Pol Pot

[@historylegends]

Very interesting! I learned a lot 🫡

[@In_Our_Timeline]

nice seeing you guys here

[@mhhmsmfshsmhfh]

hey your videos are fire

[@PerryKobalt]

The legend himself is here ❤❤❤

[@sting114]

History legends. Watch John pilgar Cambodia documentary on KZbin and you will learn more . John pilgar exposed the US supported pol pot in the 80s and 90s .

[@wulerhaufung9468]

Look! History Legends!🦉

[@chedabu]

Weird to think that pol pot's wife had schizophrenia and she was still the saner one

[@laurencewinch-furness9450]

And he was super nice and supportive to her!

[@TopatTom]

@@laurencewinch-furness9450 bruh

[@zeppelincraft1443]

POLitical POTencial: "Capitalist believers occur naturally so it is only normal for me to cull and genocide my people"

[@Darkest_matter]

well, yeah. even sadam hussain or any american presidents are nice to their family.. though america isn't as bad as other dictatorships. ​@@TopatTom

[@commenterthe3rd]

@@Darkest_matter yeah

[@Cornman670]

Imagine being killed by your own former teacher because you were his best student.

[@BiscuitDelivery]

That's what you get for handing your homework in on time and forcing him to grade it. Be a slacker, live longer.

[@eavyeavy2864]

Imagine believing immigrants will eat your cat

[@BiscuitDelivery]

@@eavyeavy2864 Trump heard that the immigrants are good at eating pussy and took it the wrong way ;)

[@lfcmike12]

​@@eavyeavy2864??? Are you okay?

[@Mr.Nichan]

@@lfcmike12 Supposedly some republican politician said something about Haitians coming to the US and eating people's pets. The comment is making fun of this, probably inspired by the Khmer Rouge's racism. I also think the reply is very random, though.

[@ColdSnapVA]

You left out the most baffling fact. He killed so many people, by 1977 he somehow reduced the average life expectancy of a Cambodian citizen to 19. That's not a typo. NINETEEN.

[@elderlycatpatriot]

Coincidentally, the moment he was ousted, it jumped about 20+ years. Still a very short life, but that really puts it into perspective. Nowadays, the average life expectancy is very high. Close to 80, if I recall. What a recovery.

[@jubuthehutt]

Life expectancy is by definition an average, when babies are killed, it drops significantly.

[@dmitripazlov491]

​@jubuthehutt well...yeah. It's a life too lol. A life that WAS expected to live longer than infancy.

[@operandexpanse]

I went there recently and my driver who I hired for a few days said human life is like butterflies in Cambodia. Very sad.

[@porchofgeese_crockpot]

18

[@Worldtradencentre]

What education in France does to a man.

[@Yesbutactuallyno788]

I'm planning to go there for my higher education 😭😭😭

[@DuskCam-ok]

Ok

[@randompersononinternet2826]

Hahahahaha you won the internet for today 😂

[@LowestofheDead]

No joke, he may have been inspired by the French revolutionary Terror which he learned about in colonial French school. If you look at -Voltaire's- *Robespierre's speeches defending the Terror, there are so many similarities with Pol Pot's writings. (EDIT: Sorry guys, I meant Robespierre)

[@nhatminhnguyen1945]

@@LowestofheDead Acctually he can attemp to learn in france because his family is rich, not because he smart and he did drop the class a lot.

[@Svevsky]

imagine growing up to see your former high school teacher become the worst dictator of the 20th century

[@alfieingrouille1528]

Their is HEAVY competition for that title buddy

[@vichetdarasophorn5330]

Would you believe me if I say that he's my grand-teacher

[@Svevsky]

@@alfieingrouille1528 very true, but the non-commie dictators usually didn't kill their own people at least

[@marilyneinsundy5544]

Okay the foreign minister during his era was my grandfather teacher as well

[@mj.l]

wouldn't surprise me, tbh

[@icreatedanaccountforthis1852]

His utopia for the working class was the grave.

[@barrybolton1396]

Sad but true

[@bloodygekkon]

Based communist

[@MrSomebodyStrange]

Mass grave, because it's communal

[@hansbregmann6994]

@@MrSomebodyStrange Neglected too since their corpses were left to rot in the fields.

[@timothyspool1399]

"Applied Communism"

[@kaiserexe998]

Pol pot when vietnam has a well equipped, trained, experienced army being lead by an experienced officer Corp that have been fighting almost nonstop for 30 years against some of the best armies in the world: "Yeah I can take 'em"

[@ilhamseptian1604]

best mistake ever

[@rinsheltered3555]

not like pol pot's gonna win against any army tbh

[@theTequilaMan]

they thought they can take them because they got support from China, China threatened to invade Vietnam if they try to invade Cambodia, which makes the pol pot really arrogant

[@thebacondefender1622]

Giving me Saddam Hussein vibes

[@ThanhVietLe-bp3ru]

He thought 1 cambodia can take 10 vietnamese 😅

[@Serai-l7z]

Polpot died peacefully at home. No trial, no brutal deaths, no retribution.

[@Adonnus100]

Justice always exists in the universe Kissinger made it to 1 century old

[@tpozzbarwani9977]

That's why there is hell

[@haraffael7821]

You can thank Thailand and the US for sponsoring and harbouring him 😅

[@RAD1111able]

​@@haraffael7821as much as I hate the "but the US!" types,there's unfortunately some truth to it

[@AB-12345]

Yeah, he was an imperialist agent. All the fuc*ers who tried to implement communism are

[@0374-x7c]

>Goes to University in Paris, France >Comes home and decides that all intellectuals must die What did he mean by this

[@Daniel94484]

This is what the French do to a man

[@bromomento1]

he got frenched

[@JohnSmith-ho3cu]

It means he wasn't smart or a good student and was jealous of the good students.

[@timothyspool1399]

I believe he saw them as a threat, as they might be able to lead others away from his chosen ideology.

[@RonJeremy514]

French left-wing universities in a nutshell. They think they outsmart everyone yet think of the most idiotic ideas ever.

[@mpeters220]

Mao turns to Kim and says 'Wow, that guy had some messed up ideas!'

[@SMGJohn]

Then Kim turns to Mao "At least he has the ballz to put landlords into the ground"

[@1wun1]

​@@SMGJohn LMao 😁

[@miguelpadeiro762]

@@SMGJohn "Bro you wear glasses" "Right...damn"

[@Sirvalian]

@@SMGJohn Kim's the only landlord. Absolute god emperor monarchy like the pharaos.

[@Rendarth1]

@@SMGJohn I mean...landlords and tenants alike.

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

Pol Pot has to be the worst leader in history. People may mention Hitler, Stalin or Mao, but they all ruled longer, had access to much more resources for their higher kill counts and still had some positive accomplishments during their reigns. Pol Pot, despite only ruling for 4 years, managed to kill 25% of his own population and would've killed even more if Vietnam had not stopped him. It especially becomes scary if you look at his Year Zero policy. Australian journalist John Pilger wrote in his book about Pol Pot: "The new rulers of Cambodia call 1975 "Year Zero", the dawn of an age in which there will be no families, no sentiment, no expressions of love or grief, no medicines, no hospitals, no schools, no books, no learning, no holidays, no music, no song, no post, no money - only work and death." Even after drastically destroying the life expectancy and literacy rate in Cambodia, Pol Pot never got any sufficient punishment for his actions, which is an insult to the entire Cambodian population.

[@1x0YT]

Worst leader is subjective

[@HienNguyen-cs1md]

You can literally see it just by how he chose communism. He read the manifesto, didn't understand jack and decided to copy things Mao and Stalin did. Bro somehow thinks being educated = going against his regime. While Stalin and Mao did some horrible things, you can't deny their achievements in bringing China and Russia from backward countries to superpowers. Pol Pot failed to achieve anything.

[@DSVlad]

gommunism, not even once

[@Darkest_matter]

he willingly turned his country into a slave society.

[@vit968]

@@DSVlad -gommunism- dictatorships, not even once

[@HoHSiS]

dude's name was /pol/ and you expected him to be competent

[@Dayz3O6]

😂

[@jonnies]

It was a pseudonym he adopted after his time in France. I believe it stands for Politique Potentiale - i.e. what you can do with politics.

[@Worldtradencentre]

@@HoHSiS pole and pot

[@sultan9givewey]

Pol pot : I have cancer, bring doctors to here Army : but you executed all doctors in the country

[@MarcoAurelio-qo3sj]

Lmaoo

[@alexpricefield6969]

The UN did nothing and even criticized Vietnam for helping Cambodian people

[@jasonfernandez3171]

Common UN L

[@mac2857]

Vietnam is the gigachad of SE Asia

[@Flickening]

What else do you expect on those jews?

[@jmoney9790]

The UN is useless

[@azerty1933]

They were actually deeply concerned

[@kenabbott8585]

Pol Pot went to Paris and studied engineering... at which he was a total failure, and flunked out. His attack on anybody educated or who knew French was petty revenge for his own failures.

[@RyanKeogh-b7r]

❌️Failing art school ✅️Failing engineering school

[@karlscher5170]

Apolies to many dictators

[@diegovilla3879]

@@RyanKeogh-b7r Art School = Hitler Engineering School = Pot LOL how they correlate is crazy

[@Xenochrome]

Communism is invariable the politics of ressentiment.

[@OneofInfinity.]

Projection.

[@jakej2680]

Noam Chomsky was a big supporter of this guy during and after his regime. He continously fought in academic circles to deny the genocide while it was occuring, stating that refugees were merely saying what they though Americans wanted to hear. He continued to do so for about 20 years until it became too controversial to keep supporting the Khmer Rouge. Also worth noting that when Pol Pot forced people to flee Phnom Penh, thousands of people in Stockholm celebrated in the streets, and their government and journalists congratulated Pot, who they likened to Robin Hood. Popular Swedish support for Pol Pot and denial of the genocide continued through it's end.

[@sentimentalbloke185]

That's why people have to be aware that many academics are supportive of far-left, authoritarian govt while trying to make noise about the supposed rise of the far right. They are projecting & protecting their own world view that communism is best for society; it's just that every failure of communism throughout history is simply a case of not being the 'tight kind' of socialism/communism.

[@melev30]

mr. chomsky is a piece of shit human being: always on the side of dictators, murderers and just overall the worst people on earth. Can't stand seeing his idiotic face.

[@zxt5148]

Thats what happens when you join an ideological cult.

[@GooseGumlizzard]

Chomsky is a clown idk why people even give him the time of day

[@Rudolph1722]

​@@GooseGumlizzardI always thought even his "discoveries" in linguistics seemed heavily to try to support political ideas. It is known that for a long time, in academia, cricticism of Chomsky linguistics was dangerous because he amassed a little army of goon professors to bully people into not looking too closely into his ideas.

[@Madaoke]

It's kinda ironic that usually the biggest monsters are the ones who think they are doing it for the good of the people

[@moustachio05]

Not always but yeah most of the time lol

[@Arcjaw]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

[@lab-testedllamba8554]

Or... they're the ones that can convincingly convince you that's what they are really thinking

[@skyrrmish6207]

That’s literally what villains in fiction are more than half the time

[@tamweiwen]

the lucifer effect

[@Eibisch98]

The Average Life Expectancy in 1975 Cambodia was 12 years...

[@42069TV]

*18.91

[@davidstrelec2000]

And by 1979 it has increased to 42 years.

[@ImEpic854]

​@@davidstrelec2000Thank Vietnam for that.

[@davidstrelec2000]

@@ImEpic854 The growing trend started in 1976. Life expectancy reached 36 years up from 12 years by 1978.

[@Thetoucanman918]

@@davidstrelec2000 that's still rather bad but certainly an improvement

[@andrew-sn5vv]

This video mentioned that people of status and intellect were killed during Pol Pot’s regime, but the majority of the entertainment industry was killed too. Directors, artists, musicians who had paved the way for Cambodia’s identity brutally vanished, and culture practically froze for decades. My parents, being born in the 70’s, only listened to 70’s music because that was the only music that had been made.

[@Dzhelkin_Elk]

I think the worst thing of all is how he pretty much got away with it unpunished and died in his sleep. It makes one truly hope Hell is real.

[@def3ndr887]

Especially the 13th level

[@EnchantedConsumerBeing]

When there is no Karma there has to be somethin?

[@NosebergEatzbugsVonShekelstein]

People don't go to hell because they are bad. People go there because they refuse to put their trust on Jesus Christ.

[@c6h5choh-cn82]

Hell is real. I don't know exactly what it is or how it looks or how it exists but it's a very very baaaad place. This material world (which is very real) where we are born and die is just a tiny dimension inside a spiritual universe. Ever wonder why we dream? Why there are some phenomena that can't be explained by logic and science? Why there are paranormal events? Why there are miracles? Why there are prophesies? Why all cultures of primitive humans in every corner of the world has believed in a god or gods and some form of a spiritual world beyond death? I say again this material world/dimension is just a small part of an infinitely vast spiritual universe with infinite dimensions (time is one example of a dimension that we knew exists but can't control).

[@ABriefHistory-uq6br]

​@@NosebergEatzbugsVonShekelstein well i guess i shall do evil until the very day just bfore i die.. in which i wil then admit jesus is my lord n savior? and escape hell? good deal.

[@KriegZombie]

"Do I look mean?" *rapid guilt-ridden blinking*

[@WyrmVolt]

Lmao

[@mrkhim3427]

He has the audacity to say that after killing so many of people

[@itscorecraft9710]

"Do I look like a vicious and cruel person?" Is more accurate translation

[@jerrymartin7019]

book in the background titled "how to lie without people knowing" with a page bookmarked

[@intiorozco5063]

@@itscorecraft9710 "it's not about how you look like, it's about what you did"

[@ferretyluv]

Reminder that Noam Chomsky still denies the Cambodian genocide, even after the killing fields were found with over a million bodies in them that matched early estimates.

[@rowanlau1651]

common noam chomsky L. Man just has a thing for genocide denial

[@EvdogMusic]

Noam believes that any state that self-describes as communist is inherently good, and states that don't are not. A communist state committing genocide punches a hole through that premise, so he stubbornly refuses to accept it.

[@homelessandstarving]

Only a maga shit bag could sound like a braying jackass with their garbage anti semitic bullshit. What do you think that says about you and your blatant racism?

[@Pink.andahalf]

Just for fun? What does he get out of it?

[@EvdogMusic]

@@Pink.andahalf Noam believes that all self-described socialist/communist states are inherently good and can do no wrong: he's required to dismiss any evil they do as "western propaganda" so his belief doesn't fall apart.

[@killre-kr5pj]

My grandpa is a former khmer national armed force soldier and he survive the bs and he still here till this day. Eat that pol pot.

[@davidstrelec2000]

So that means he was part of the Lon Nol forces that oversaw the destruction of Cambodia.

[@CaroCaro7517]

My grandpa was also an ex lon nol soldier

[@thasmandotory589]

@@hearo18 hell no lmao

[@leeleed9011]

It easy for him since he has info of when polpot hit and enough resource to move before any regular citizen did... ask any survivor that fled before polpot hit, they either were lucky or they knew beforehand

[@Gneskos]

It all started with you folks overthrowing Songkum Chet Reastr Niyum of King Sihanouk. We actually had a fascist government that works. But nope Lon Nol and his far-right wanted a ‘Republic’.

[@vincenzo2440]

My whole grandma family was wiped, including her 2 brother who are very intellectual and both of her parent.

[@lanboom9957]

​@@uniquehedghog dude wtf

[@uniquehedghog]

@@lanboom9957 go drink your soymilk

[@Altar-11]

@@uniquehedghog this is mess up

[@heavent883]

damn what demon

[@Jayhannes]

​@@uniquehedghog bro that's not Instagram

[@Jopie496]

I knew a Cambodian woman. She was a little girl when PolPot took over. She saw her father, mother, and 4 siblings slowly die from over work, starvation, disease and beatings. She herself as a small child was forced to work in rice fields and beaten. She survived. She always refused to wear black. At times something would trigger a memory. She would start crying. The crying would go on for hours and hours. Nothing could stop it. The most intense gut wrenching crying you could ever imagine. This is what evil, vile, disgusting communists do to people.

[@nhatho1723]

I have a friend whose dad was in a Khmer prison camp for years. He escaped and made his way to the US somehow. He refused to ever give details about his experience. Even my friend doesn’t know. It’s horrendous.

[@Abelius]

The adjectives you used are basically a synonym of what Communism has always been.

[@Pls_dont_eat_macat]

All stupidity aside Pol pot saw Vietnam beating France and American firsthand and somehow think he can do better 😂

[@OverG88]

God damn was Vietnam a gigachad of war.

[@killre-kr5pj]

They are the worst, They lost alot to achive victory that is smt we can all admire, The biggest L the american give to them is agent orange.

[@Springfield707]

While on the other hand they still fought China when attacked

[@kamika-zz6192]

During the Vietnam war more than 2 million Vietnamese people died. Only 50,000 American soldiers died. That's not really beating

[@MuammarQadaffi]

@@kamika-zz6192 And how many of them were civilians? Not exactly a fair comparison...

[@LymengKao]

As a cambodian I agree that Pol pot is dumb

[@MALAY_TENGU]

No he not He was the entire clown of SEA

[@feifei_xgod]

all cambodian dumb

[@RadenAshBornn]

Damn right he is! 😂

[@giahuynguyenkim6389]

​He wasn't just the clown, he was the entire circuit​@@MALAY_TENGU

[@MaoZedongWasRightAllAlong-i9f]

As any kind of human being you HAVE to agree that pol pot is an idiot. Kissinger and the usa helped this man so much , he seriously didnt distrust theM?

[@edwardkelly345]

Most of this is generally accurate, except ... The bombing of Cambodia in the late 60's - early 70's was not undertaken by the Cambodian government or Norodom Sihanouk. They didn't have an airforce capable of that, for one. It was done by the US military at the orders of Nixon & Kissinger in an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh Trail supply route from north to south Vietnam that was arming the Viet Cong (south Vietnamese communist insurgents). As many as 100,000 Cambodians in rural Cambodian villages were killed by this illegal bombing campaign (it was not authorized by Congress nor was Congress informed... They considered impeaching Nixon for it, but other crimes closer to home came to light). The resulting upheaval fed the ranks of the Khmer Rouge and created an environment where his rebellion could succeed. Source: I've lived in Cambodia for over 12 years now and was an editor at two newspapers here, among other things.

[@edwardkelly345]

Also ... Sihanouk did not return to power. The government formed in 1993 and that persists today is a Constitutional monarchy, like Britain for example. It has a National Assembly and Prime Minister who are in charge (they are elected... sort of, they are supposed to be ... But that's another topic). The King is an important figure in Cambodian culture and has some ceremonial duties related to the government but he does not exercise any authority any longer. Today, Norodom Sihanouk's son Sihamoni is the reigning king.

[@insertnamehere001]

Many Cambodians today resent Vietnamese influence on the country. I can understand why, but they did get rid of Pol Pot. Can't have your cake and eat it too.

[@mattparke4370]

We should have just defended our border and then let Pol Pol unalive all of his people. We waste our own men, our resources, and our food which we fed them after saving them all for them to turn around and say we are the villains

[@QuangHaiinh]

They just got ìnluented by China teaching. Yes, the same one attacking Vietnam to protect polpot

[@DucksAndCatnip]

@@mattparke4370 if you would only help people if they would recognise you as a hero then you are not doing it to help them

[@iROChakri]

@@mattparke4370 That's what Thailand did. Minding our own business :v

[@tranlong1768]

@@DucksAndCatnip and how would you feel, after you help a nation escape a genocide, they start to forget, ignore all the good deeds you did them in recent times and begin to curse you back because of something that happended 300 years ago?

[@Linyifeng.]

As a Cambodian, this video was a lot more tamer than what this monster was REALLY known to the Khmer people. My grandpas father was shot in the head just for trying to feed his family, my grandfather was hiding behind a nearby bush and saw his father eat a bullet to the head. Till this day, my grandpa still talks about them, it’s sad but it’s really annoying how every time I do something that isn’t to his liking he always goes “if polpot was here you would be dead by now.” Trauma and ptsd is a horrible thing, but scaring and abusing people just because you went through something horrific is not the way to go, and this is how most of the survivors of polpot acts sadly. Edit : hello a lot of people seem to think that I am saying that my grandpa should shut up about his traumatic experiences, first and foremost I am not. I am fully aware of everything he has went through. He has told me each and every single story and things he has seen with his eyes, and none of them were great. This was bad yes, but I’m trying to say he needs to realize that that era is over now and we can all rest easy. Although this is a “coping mechanism” of his it is still not correct to be all up in my family, my parents, my friends, siblings and myself about it. I know he is trying to make me feel grateful and happy about the easy life I have right now which I am definitely grateful about, I still dislike the fact that this is how he chooses to do it by saying “you will die if you don’t do this right.” I want to live and die an easy and painless death, not be scared of my life over the fact that “polpot is going to come back if you keep misbehaving.” I am more angry about the fact that this is the way he chooses to cope. Remember that there are GOOD and BAD ways to cope. And I hope you people understand that.

[@alfariziislam3796]

Damn the generational trauma that thing called polpot caused must've be insanely rough for your people to have them act like that after that tbing long gone

[@Hubertmoney88]

Your grandpa didn't move on then, lmao.

[@jimmyalfonda3536]

"If polpot were here, you'd be dead." Yeah, so would a hell of alot of us. And it could be at random. 😂

[@Aciel_Yu]

@@Hubertmoney88 "lmao", spoiled and privilege kid you are. It is obvious that the grandpa is suffering from PTSD or other stresses suffering from seeing his love ones being killed in a war that he could do nothing to help his father. The country was still in a civil war after the Khmer Rouge regime, so it is pretty obvious that he has not received any proper treatment from his trauma. Making a joke out of sth like this is so disgusting that I wish your country goes through a genocide so I can make fun of you too making phrases like "just move on you foool". Also I sometimes wish people wouldnt make a youtube video about a genocide so dumb fks like you wouldnt make a joke out of people's generational trauma. It is so disgusting to be you, i wouldnt want to be in your headspace for even 1 second.

[@A_YouTube_Commenter]

They were devils.

[@alexnauru7692]

Pol Pot is one of the few people in history that I’m genuinely baffled how they had the support they did for as long as they did. Like how did he still have people fighting for him over a decade after he killed a quarter of the country?

[@eyeofbast]

Godless people have no shortage of meat-puppets for he who dwells in the weeds.

[@dansmith1661]

Pol Pot had a higher support % of the population than any Democracy leader.

[@timbermicka]

He was backed by the US and China to continue the fight against Vietnam. That support was artificial.

[@cc0767]

I really wonder about that as well. Other dictators like Hitler, Stalin or Mao were revered by the people, but I dont really see that with Pol Pot.

[@GooseGumlizzard]

shithole primitive country

[@buidangbao]

The Khmer Rouge’s attack on Vietnam was not so stupid. They were supported by China, the US, and ASEAN, and they used guerrilla warfare against Vietnam. Unlucky for them, Vietnam was not only master guerrilla warfare, but also master counter-guerrilla warfare.

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

ASEAN did not exist until 1997...

[@buidangbao]

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 ASEAN was init from 1967 with purpose of fighting Vietnamese communists

[@Hotpotato886]

​@@buidangbaoit wasn't called asean atleast get your fact right before telling someone

[@buidangbao]

@@Hotpotato886 this write on ASEAN main portal : "On 8 August 1967, five leaders - the Foreign Ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand - sat down together in the main hall of the Department of Foreign Affairs building in Bangkok, Thailand and signed a document. By virtue of that document, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was born"

[@sababugs1125]

the USA didn't support Pol Pot

[@vinsovan9707]

Grandma had to "steal" the very tomato she grew just to stay full.

[@imposter8720]

But- but-…ummm uh…communism is GOOD! Uh…this is not REAL communism!! Believe me…coooomunism is Nice and wholesome!! (Some leftist cuck who never had a day of struggle in his life and want to support some “quirky” ideas to make himself feel special and “smart”…I hope every one of those leftist cuck be born again in some commie shithole to know what hardships people go through)

[@luis_villagomez]

I hope shes doing better now

[@RongDMemer]

My grandma almost got buried alive lol at least she lives

[@LuisHernandez-u2l]

13:16 “do I look mean?” ask the 25% of the population you killed bro😭

[@MinhLe-th7iz]

Just so you know, the Vietnamese were not invading, the context was removed. We have to attacked due to the fact that during border clashes, they massacred our people along the borders. That is still haunting people in the region to this day. If we don't attack, they would just keep harrassing the Southern border. And currently, there's a part of young people in Cambodia believe we took their land in the South (which did happened, but was like when Champa existed).

[@LeadLeftLeon]

Nam just wanted to be left alone. Russian Artillery helped them make it happen

[@Rifqiethehero]

Why would Cambodia claim Champa? Doesn't Champa people are Malay and Muslim?

[@longwlenguyen4214]

@@Rifqiethehero the Cham are part of Austronesian ethnic same as the Indonesian and the Malay, calling them Malay is stupid, Champa used to be Hindu and once a part of the Khmer Empire, they founded their own kingdom after the fall of the Khmer and went through multiple war against the North Vietnam dynasties until the Champa grown weak and decentralized that Vietnamese counter invaded them and defeated them, the Cambodia are obsessed with most South Vietnam territory and the Mekong Delta because according to them it was the ancient Khmer land or something, mind you most of those lands such as Saigon used to be uninhabited worthless jungle and swamp until the Vietnamese arrive. Nowadays the Cambodian even try to claim Phu Quốc island as theirs because ancient Khmer land bs.

[@Darkest_matter]

​@Rifqietheherchampa was south vietnamese Muslims

[@Darkest_matter]

​@@longwlenguyen4214aah so it would be like mongolians today claiming that everywhere from kazakhstan to turkey is theirs because it was once under their control.

[@berke2336]

As someone that worked in Phnom Penh archiving interviews of Paris Peace Accord participants and former KR soldiers... 25% is pretty conservative, a lot of experts that work on restoring and preserving killing fields and mass graves say it very possibly could have been up to 1/3 the population got killed or starved, as they are STILL DISCOVERING mass graves to this day + the KR destroyed the majority of peoples' documentation as part of the "year zero" campaign, so it's hard to verify just how many people disappeared. It sucks, because Cambodia really is a beautiful place with some of the most hospitable folks I've ever met while travelling - but the KR continues to leave a cloud over the entire country almost 50 years later

[@TheMrrabbit1968]

Stranger still, when I visit the remote provincial corners, I find ex KR officers holding positions as Okna, or village chiefs- even Imams at the Cham mosques. I've eaten & drank with guys who still live in the jungle, wearing camo fatigues & carrying AK47s. Many of them are cchuot (crazy), yet I've never felt even close to being threatened by any of them- if anything they taught me a lot & threated me with kindness & generosity. KR are often still quietly supported here, especially in the poorest rural regions. The reasons vary from "They tried to achieve a better Kampuchea, but Pol Pot failed them", to "You had to be here to understand. It was a civil war & many of the KR officers fought Pol Pot's factions & saved many lives". The most rational & typically Khmer Buddhist explanation was given to me by a wise teacher & it was simple "They are still Cambodians. If we cannot forgive them & find a place for them in today's Cambodia, how will we ever heal as a nation?". It is a complicated story & sadly most of the 'History' is written by American University professors who have never really asked the Cambodians who lived through that apocalypse for their versions of events. Pol Pot himself is almost universally reviled, however so many Khmer boys were forced into the war with the choice of joining, or having their families, or even entire villages machine-gunned, or worse. Nonetheless, to this day, Kampuchea bravely strives, as Anthony Bourdain said, to raise itself back up on one leg. This country & it's history remains an enigma to me, even after six years living among the people, from Phnom Penh, to villages that aren't even on the map. Once you have lived that, there's no going back. It pulls you into a reality that exists nowhere else.

[@RGC_animation]

A teacher once asked their students what were their favourite animal, and the Cambodian kid said "Pol Pot".

[@Peanut_butterYeY]

Is it supposed to be an insult for pole metal pot(jk)?

[@ChrisOfficalGaming]

My dad was a survivor in this event, he saw everything and I mean EVERYTHING that had happened in this disaster. And he is still here today!

[@cashewnuttel9054]

According to him, is all this true or is this just capitalist propaganda?

[@TheCSJones]

How's he doing mentally?

[@whoisdezz]

​@@TheCSJonesprobably with some trauma and ptsd

[@truthlocc4575]

It's impossible to have seen "EVERYTHING" that had happened. The Khmer Rouge was not one cohesive unit. Some regions had it worse or better than other regions did. I know this from hearing stories from Cambodian people from different regions of Cambodia, who lived through the Khmer Rouge regime. My mom and dad are from different parts of Cambodia, each of their experiences are way different. I have family friends also from different regions including from Khmer ethnic regions of South Vietnam. They all have compartmentalized experiences from one another. What happened then isnt so simple as one person's experience, but yeah it was all bad.

[@cashewnuttel9054]

@@truthlocc4575 If there is one genuinely good thing that Pol Pot did during his reign, what would it be?

[@austinclements8010]

The Khmer Rouge is one of the least talked about, but undeniably most brutal regime i've ever had the displeasure of reading about. The imperial japanese come close, But it's probably second only to Stalin in my mind for the blatant disregard for their own citizens lives and active persuing of eliminating their own population

[@revanofkorriban1505]

Not even Stalin matched Pol Pot in sheer brutality and insanity.

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

Honestly, the only regimes I'd consider worse than the Nazis were their Japanese allies (mainly because they were more sadistic and violated every war rule possible) and the Khmer Rouge. While the Japanese did gruesome stuff like Unit 731, they still had far more resources than the Khmer Rouge, considering Cambodia was already a poor country before while Japan was a powerful empire. Pol Pot also tried to exterminate the Vietnamese population (Ba Chuc massacre), but never got as far as the Axis Powers because of his small army. I could image Pol Pot also committing genocide in Vietnam and likely Thailand too if he had a very powerful army.

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

@@revanofkorriban1505 Both Stalin and Pol Pot were tyrants, but it's also kinda ironic that Stalin's ultimate goal was to industrialize the USSR while Pol Pot wanted to do the exact opposite. Stalin intentionally starved millions of Ukrainians in the Holodomor, but he still built the largest army in the world and the USSR became the 2nd largest economy worldwide after WW2. Pol Pot meanwhile not only starved his own population for nothing, but he also wanted to destroy everything in Cambodia just to turn the country back to the stoneage.

[@Alexander-vo4gv]

Nah dawg Stalin actually did some good, pol pot was straight up just an evil retard who did nothing positive

[@TrungNguyen-uf8cv]

Unlike commies, imperialists tend to not exterminate its own people

[@TheBlackwolf5011]

Pol Pot is one of those kinds of people who make you hope hell is real.

[@slimynaut]

Dont worry, it is.

[@lukie-luke3994]

I appreciate the humorous take, great video, but actually looing into the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge is heartbreaking. I had the opportunity to travel to Cambodia a few years ago and visit one of the secret torture prisons run by the regime. They have literal mountains of skulls and they're still finding mass graves and unexploded ordinance to this day. Every single Cambodian alive today lost loved ones to this regime which only reigned for 4 years. The country is growing at an incredible rate, but there is a stark lack of older people around, and they rarely want to talk about it.

[@dansmith1661]

They let you look for mass graves? I couldn't even get permitted to search in German camps because it would negate the narrative.

[@YusriVanna]

My grandfather was a soldier for the Khmer Republic during the Cambodian Civil War. When the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh in 1975, he pretended to be a factory worker. They were forced to relocate to a rural work camp, where my grandmother was executed and buried in a well because my grandpa had flee the camp. My mother, who was a member of the Khmer Rouge youth, survived. My grandfather sought refuge in Vietnam, where he joined forces with other Cambodian refugees to form a resistance movement against the Khmer Rouge. He was part of the liberation forces that overthrew the Khmer Rouge in 1979.

[@Chr.Monika6469]

The most revolting thing is that this "man" died peacefully. And never got any sort of punishment for what he did

[@nguyenduythang7598]

Vietnam saved Cambodia even though capitalism countries calling that as an invasion and China waited for that moment to invade Vietnam

[@smithjohn7855]

It is fine calling it an invasion. It is a justified invasion, similar to the justified invasions of Germany and Japan (Okinawa) in World War 2. "Invasion" in English doesn't have a bad meaning.

[@touhousupremacy]

Invasion là từ trung nghĩa ông ạ, nó có hiểu như là "đổ bộ" chứ không phải "xâm lược"

[@explosioncatsandknives7747]

Đồng bào located

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

Don't forget, the US under Nixon and PRChina SUPPORTED this regime all to spite Hanoi...

[@Thetoucanman918]

the us government was and is retarded and didn't think to themselves that cambodia is also communist and even nastier than vietnam

[@In_Our_Timeline]

"why do all the wired sh!t start in france" i ask myself that question every day man

[@SAMARTBO]

it USA dirty hands, they overthrown king regimes of Cambodia.

[@mortenrl1946]

A surprising amount of the modern batch has something to do with Michel Foucault

[@PhilJonesIII]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel also studied in France. No complaints here.

[@mortenrl1946]

@@PhilJonesIII Studying engineering vs. studying political science?

[@Tempusverum]

All the weird post-modernist philosophers seem to have came out of France

[@eamonwright7488]

Always thought it was ironic that Pol Pot Banned money, but when the Vietnamese army liberated Phnom Penh, they found millions of freshly printed Khmer Rouge money all over the streets.

[@bl4ckpj]

I’m from Cambodia and the name Pol Pot (ប៉ុល ពត) is more popular to say than Salot Sor (សាឡុុត ស). The cruelty of him really scratched every Cambodian people’s hearts from young age all the way to elders. What a history…

[@Dabocado]

He wasn’t dumb. He was extraordinarily evil.

[@Lttlemoi]

Nah, you have to be capital R dumb to believe that purposefully reducing your entire population to the worst conditions in history is a good idea. Don't get me wrong, he still sounds like a complete psychopath, but smart psychopaths don't do things like this.

[@HahaDamn]

History forgets Thatcher supported him and so did Chomsky

[@karlscher5170]

Libertarian sociopaths

[@alephestudios]

Let's not forget the US started this by bombing the heck out of Cambodia just because Kissinger thought it was a clever idea!

[@bromomento1]

@@alephestudios Pol Pot is Responsable for his actions, no one force him to be a socialist death cultist, he got ideal setings with even the king in is side

[@frankvandorp2059]

@@alephestudios That the US was involved at some point doesn't mean they "started" it. Pol Pot and his gang were already this completely insane and trying to take over before the US ever bombed anyone there.

[@issabeganovic8822]

Racism by proxy. They had a scapegoat to outsource their closeted genocidal fascism on.

[@mathieuleader8601]

those other dictators being weary of Pol Pot proves how much of a loose canon he was

[@andresmaldonado8587]

Pol pot: we did Mao! We saved Cambodia! Mao: I'm ashamed to be associated with you

[@Chezroblos]

Hey, thanks for covering a topic about my country!!!

[@pyaesonekyaw6800]

Update: The Dumbest Dictator Right now is Min Aung Hlaing ( dictator of Myanmar)

[@yummydragon8533]

what's he doing?

[@Darkest_matter]

​@@yummydragon8533a lot of shit.

[@JKribbit]

Genuinely believe he would be doing whag Pol Pot did if it wasnt for the ethnic armies resisting and the global condemnations. Dude be fucking stupid enough to do it for sure.

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

@@yummydragon8533 He launched a coup in Myanmar 3 years ago and now there's a civil war in Myanmar.

[@yosshy765]

Bro is killing half of population, many labor class people and scholars fled to Thailand or in the jungle. Great success developing a country, dummy. Has He never herd of Kmear Rouge or what?

[@AdistuffRBX]

Where was the scene at 8:30 from?

[@paulmeier8817]

A Movie called: "Der Hauptmann" (2018, Germany)

[@hanchiman]

Sad thing is, there were idiots who paid their respect for this monster who croaked at the end and even went to the place they burned his body.

[@tanks4dying]

Sympathizers or citizens of cambodia? Because from personal experience, under Saddam’s rule, many are brainwashed and believe the agenda the dictatorship pushed. Just the way it is, although not great!

[@seanturner1197]

He was so evil, he turned some guy into a cyborg ninja who screams about memes and magnetic force.

[@lonewolf4689]

You know what they say rules of nature

[@keremayhan3376]

Memes. The Dna of the soul

[@mr.selyumor5402]

I mean it says a lot that the only backstory we get from monsoon himself is just him namedropping Phnom Penh. That really is all you need.

[@lolstalgic9602]

It actually goes deeper than you think: Monsoon was a child soldier forced to adapt to nebulous physical integrity after "living" through Pol Pot’s regime, literally growing up on the killing fields as a civilian during a time of war. Monsoon's own song "The Stains of Time" secretly summarize his inner trauma. He was forced to join a crime syndicate for his own survival, not necessarily because he wanted to. "Wash away the anger" "The warm and soothing rain" "Wash away the sorrow" "It's only dry inside" the lyrics represent Monsoon's sorrows and obvious regret he has for the horrendous crimes he had to commit and how he wishes he could just clean his sins and forget about them. it's why he doesn't believe in any god, and he thinks free will is a myth because he was forced to survive based on his surroundings, war in itself was a meme that forced him to do things he didn't want to. Monsoon is disillusioned, his dreams have disappeared. He actually lost his body in a gang shootout. Then yes, he was 'saved' by Desperado, but is ultimately forever in debt to them, his body is owned by them, he believed that he could sink deeper "into a peaceful life" but in reality it's more of the same to him. He could easily be discarded, no one will care or remember him, if Desperado choses, so he does their bidding, just to stay alive. This is where his obsession with Memetics come into play. "Memetics" is a mostly discredited science, with many even labelling it pseudoscience. Every part of us that isn't primal is a meme, a composition of external influences comprising who we are. Comprising the superego. But just like the superego is not the self in isolation, the id is not the self either, and instead they work together to make up who we are. Memes are the culture that shapes us as our minds develop. We grow up in a warzone, our meme will shapes us to be bitter and cynical. We grow up wealthy, our memes will make us feel sheltered and entitled. Most famously, the study of memes is often seen as trying to treat culture as if it worked like genetics, which can be notoriously problematic because it's never been absolute that culture can actually act like or be transmitted like that, as humans can indeed rebel against our memes. Monsoon believes the opposite. That we are slaves. He never had control over his life's surroundings, never could change the culture or circumstances around him despite knowing how bad they could influence or shape his upbringing. And he believes this to be the case for everyone, that it was literally human nature. "Wind blows, rain falls and the strong prey upon the weak" just as in nature, wild animals have no control over how they survive: They either do or they don't. and those who do are enslaved to what they are molded by. Criminals cannot be reformed, greedy men will never know compassion, angry men will never calm down, and they as adults we are doomed to repeat their sinful traits until they leave this plane of existence His smile and crazed mania, as I see it, is just how he copes with his destructive downward spiral of a life he thinks cannot change the course, even if he wanted to. He laughs because he knows it's not his fault, but he laughs harder because it doesn't matter because every single human being is condemned to perpetual state of phycological damnation. "No one to blame, nothing to answer for. We can die with a clear conscience" A true Nihilist by definition. And yes I DO have a Metal Gear Key chain. And no, you can't see it. It's for real fans only

[@seanturner1197]

@lolstalgic9602 that's OK I once had a poster of mgs1. Well it was a page out of a men's health magazine that advertised the game until one of my parents tossed it in the bin. I was incredibly livid about it. I never really owned mgs1 back then, I only had mgs2 Substance. Note: mgs2 Substance, not sons of liberty, the reason why I got that game was because of the vr missions And extra content. I am not that much of a fan of mgs but I really do like its almost futuristic military hardware, and it reminds me of GI Joe, specifically GI extreme because you had characters with codenames and there was an episode where the Joe's base of operations was completely destroyed because some US politician but was Iron klaw in disguised who branded them as a terrorists and then sent in the military to destroy them. I was reminded of this when, in Metal Gear 2, after defeating the first Cyborg ninja, created by a division of NASA, black ninja, who was Kyle Schneider, a South African citizen, mentions that after destroying metal gear tx-55 and the destruction of Outer heaven, based in the republic of South Africa, NATO came along and bombardes it to smithereens. I Look at what happened to those Joes and then I look at what happened to Outer Heaven and I think to myself, this is a grave injustice. Another reason why I like mgs, The vr missions. I was so looking forward to a mgs4 integral with vr missions and maybe a few chapters where you play as raiden but the gameplay would be different.. It would have essentially been prototype gameplay of what would later be, MGR. Instead mgs4 got a re-release, with..... Trophy support, Of all things.

[@villiannewyork]

Back in high school I read a book called Never Fall Down. It’s a real account of a boy who grew up under the Khmer Rouge. He was forced to play the flute for the guards. They would kill people and then if anyone had reacted or showed any emotion they’d kill them too. Then when Vietnam declared war they sent in children to fight them. The Vietnamese were already used to fighting Americans before this so the Cambodian kids didn’t stand a chance. Somehow he escaped and an American adopted him and he somehow survived considering he had malaria and was 60 pounds.

[@joaovitorteixeirabento]

I wonder what would Cambodia look like today of this lunatic didn't got ousted by Vietnam.

[@Yesbutactuallyno788]

I don't wanna know

[@davidstrelec2000]

It would have been an agrarian industrial socialist state instead of a right wing capitalist oligarchy as it is under Hun Sen.

[@rothroth8127]

North Korea but worst

[@SSX02]

I heard somewhere that the pol pot massacre Vietnamese villages then extract their fat in a jar or something

[@SAMARTBO]

it USA dirty hands, they overthrown king regimes of Cambodia.

[@keosambath721]

My parents and grandparents used to talk about their times during the Khmer Rouge often when I was young, what they had to do just to survive and how much they miss their families who were taken from them. They don't talk about those times any more, and I'm glad they are healing and living happily now, and I wish that other families are healing too. 🙏

[@tikatuwa]

I remember reading how the Cambodia-Vietnam-China war was such a peculiar political situation where everyone involved wanted to fight but just a little bit. Vietnam wanted to attack Cambodia because their disagreements have escalated into war crimes (like the Ba Chuc massacre). Cambodia was a Chinese ally (most of their weapons are from Chinese aid) so if Vietnam invades, China has to support them and invade Vietnam. Russia is a Vietnam ally so if China invades Vietnam, Russia has to support them but Vietnam is too far to aid with force. They can't project power like the US can. They were reluctant to just charge across China's northern border. So Russia basically allowed China to invade Vietnam for Cambodia's sake if they agreed not to hold any territory afterwards. Vietnam also did not keep any Cambodian land after the war. Thusly, Vietnam gets to firmly "encourage" a regime change in Cambodia but things did not escalate into World War 3 in spite of the messy network of defensive alliances. Instead of international support for retaliating against war crimes, Vietnam gets slapped with sanctions for its war of 'aggression'. It was very fucky wucky.

[@talkingtree3695]

for more info, Russia threaten to nuke China if they dont pull out of VietNam

[@bunlengboy4816]

I live in Cambodia, and the genocide was sad and brutal for my father and mother's parents generation.

[@chhayarithung1204]

damn man thank you for sharing the history of my country Cambodia with the world. I appreciate you man!!

[@mattparke4370]

Do you think Vietnamese are bad people?

[@yeetrepublic9142]

@@mattparke4370No, bruh. The Vietnamese invasion has always been portrayed as good for us (or at least a necessary evil). Unless you're asking the older, more conservative folks. But from what I've asked my grandparents (keep in mind the small sample size, there are definitely less educated folks here that still hold a grudge), they don't really seem to care about Vietnam.

[@chhayarithung1204]

@@yeetrepublic9142 yh no shit bro for a fact that vietnamese is still portray as "the rescuer" for Cambodian's but mostly portray them the evil one. Without Vietnam there would be no Cambodia today.

[@junkvideos4527]

What’s truly scary about him is that those who’ve directly met and spoken with him say he seems to be genuinely a nice person

[@kimsamvongsa5921]

Thank you for sharing the most horrific history of Cambodia. It still leave deep wounds in the heart of our nation.

[@Newellgk]

Anyone else notice that Pol Pot looks like an Asian Elon Musk?

[@christopher9727]

......... Do you know Jesus Christ can set you free from sins and save you from hell today Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today Romans 6.23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus

[@thevoiceofthelost]

My god, you're right..

[@hecksters423]

Yi Rong Musk

[@myboysd5772]

@@christopher9727 Are you a bot or a real person, why would you respond like that to "Asian Elon Musk"?

[@lye-kf2ho]

Elon the goat

[@David-bl6yg]

Remember that one time Noam Chomsky defended the Khmer Rouge, denied the genocide and then gave the most halfassed, mealy mouthed “””apology””” where he refused to admit he was wrong?

[@EXOTICHEVYC8]

My grandma almost got shot by one of pol pots massive rockets. Instead part of it hit her dad’s chin and killed her ducks.

[@mattparke4370]

Pol Pol and his men graped many women too

[@chiefcs8819]

My grandmother had 9 siblings including herself, all of them died, killed because they had respectable jobs gained from further education. She was the only one left to tell their story. The pain this man caused for so many of us is immeasurable. Thank you for educating everyone on this man’s heinous crimes. The fact he never received justice still angers me so much to this day.

[@tristanmorris9432]

I had no clue they didn’t completely disband until the late 90s. Very good video!

[@Mike_Littoris]

What’s the song for intro 0:20 and at the end? It’s a banger lol

[@meletisananias9057]

Sat Tee Touy, Cambodian song

[@CostaCola]

Check out the Cambodian Cassette Archives.

[@reluctantcrusader8455]

English title for the song is Look at the Owl

[@OZTutoh]

The Battlefield 1942 theme is in here as well.

[@Clumpsygally]

As a mom, it’s a children’s rhyme. Maybe they have used it for different songs 😂. Literally about a frog going to school wearing a hat. Search: kong’keb pak mouk

[@kamhos]

Not 25% , but 50% of population

[@mattiabonati1453]

99.9% only polpo was remaining

[@aw2584]

6 bazillion Cambodians

[@nikolais163]

Only Pol Pot survived trust me bro

[@kamhos]

@@nikolais163 after this regime, Cambodia has faced a lot of problem due to illiterature. Majority of people did not know how to write or read because education was banned, and most of educated people were killed.

[@Gleaves]

​@@aw2584 3 million confirmed Disagree if you dumber than Salot Sar

[@zhabiboss]

12:08 “My mind is clear, I acknowledge that mistakes were made” bro you sure about that?

[@cc0767]

This is something I would say if I accidentally deleted some files from my works cloud. Not if I nearly killed my own country.

[@UODPhil]

Taking children away from their parents, even Ingsoc (Oceania) in George orwells 1984, wasnt at that step yet.

[@manara-stream]

1984 is a pretty tame book compared to the horrors of dictatorships. First-world people can't really write about dictatorships because they can't imagine how far dictators could go.

[@Nechay.]

​@manara-stream I mean Eric Arthur Blair was for some time a socialist and was involving in Spanish civil war fighting for the Spanish Republic(or more their left wing because you know Spanish Republic and all) and he saw some war crimes that were done by commies and took bullet in his neck so he has SOME experience with cruelty of radical left.. imagine what he would write if he would seen the stuff that was going on in Cambodia!

[@dansmith1661]

They weren't even at the chopping apart children and making boys into girls step.

[@enzito_sdf6978]

well, a lot of dictatorships actually did that. i know that in south america it was common, sadly.

[@teebob21]

It's a standard approach, directly from the Communist Manifesto.

[@VincentSmartPlayz]

Cambodian viewers: 👇

[@outercast9532]

Ladyboy 🫵

[@virakbothneth7813]

Yep that me

[@vanlidethpen6972]

Me

[@qinging1319]

Me

[@sreymom3210]

me too

[@SkywarpG1X]

What song is that used in the video? 0:18

[@blasius-maximus2716]

Is kinda hard to find thou

[@blackhawkaviation194]

It’s called “sat tee touy”

[@SkywarpG1X]

​@@blackhawkaviation194Ty

[@Buukii-buuchi]

whats more dumb about this is that the people listened to this guy

[@comradecat1922]

I mean, i sure they only followed along because they would have either been killed or worst

[@elijahstuffs]

Like people did with Hitler Mussolini Stalin Putin etc

[@jasonkinzie8835]

It wasn't exactly a democracy. They listened to him the way you would listen to someone pointing a machine gun at you and threatening to execute your family if you didn't do what they said. He did need enough support to create this situation but once it had become a reality the terror would have been self-sustaining.

[@alephestudios]

it was that or dying

[@DareDa-g7r]

​@@comradecat1922he meant those comrades that joined him

[@Radioactive_dummy]

Thank to that jerk this is why life as a Cambodian still suck after the Khmer rouge.

[@Justin3]

Long time fan, nice to see your videos finally gaining recognition!

[@WyrmVolt]

Welcome back! Thanks haha

[@Khmey-ti6iw]

Bro is worse than Kim jong un

[@Brathna-kh]

Real

[@thesovietduck2121]

Kim Jong Un is nothing to past Dictators, he just eats a lot

[@srikarpappu6245]

was*

[@lepmuhangpa]

Kim Jong doesn't even come close.

[@quan-uo5ws]

kim jong un isnt even some evil mastermind, he just prolongs the status quo in north korea

[@lamedame1213]

It was also super funny that both the US and China supported this buffoon

[@mattparke4370]

It is scary that the US was a villain in the 20th century.

[@OZTutoh]

This is a simple statement to a depressingly complex problem at the time. China didn't want Soviet influence growing around it from the Viet Cong in Vietnam, so the US assisted enemies of the Viet Cong, which included Cambodia.

[@def3ndr887]

U.S. was angry they lost their precious puppet state and China was mad because once again rowdy Vietnamese exist at their front door

[@timbermicka]

Notice that this crucial information (US backing) is missing from the video :)

[@lamedame1213]

@@timbermicka it is very clearly documented that the US provided material and financial support for the Khmer Rogue.

[@subfloor2022]

Socialism/Communism hails the virtues of "self sufficiency" and then in practice, totally ignore that part opressing and micromanaging everything.

[@pepep1773]

Omg thank you so much 4 doing my country and I even arrived 3 days later, not that long but thank you to the absolute!❤

[@nikolais163]

Now when i hear Cambodia i think about Pol Pot

[@notagooglesimp8722]

I love how you are playing a remix of the Battlefield 1942 theme. That was my first WASD controlled PC game. It changed everything.

[@timothyhanner8118]

Nice job on the video. I think a great subject for a video would be Mithradates the Poison King.

[@killre-kr5pj]

Phom penh as of now has about 2.5 million, the same population back at 1975.

[@Revolting_laptop]

It's 3 million

[@Revolting_laptop]

Or more

[@killre-kr5pj]

Yep your a retard

[@Revolting_laptop]

@@killre-kr5pj so that means you were spreading lies

[@killre-kr5pj]

@@Revolting_laptop do you even live in phom penh I check it again it not even 3 million it 2.3

[@tomislavjelic7444]

How do you get those stock footage from 0:23 and onward?

[@J-IK]

Magic

[@nicholasmendoza5844]

You can literally search it on this algorithm.

[@jaybobdoodles]

Google it

[@Sustainerz]

He recorded it

[@Ziriah]

Clearly he was there

[@GamersBay]

The irony of this brutal, heartless dictator claiming everything he did was for his country. Yet, he treated his people like human garbage, enslaving and torturing them.

[@VincentiusWhite]

bro saw the vietnamese defeating the literal best army in the world who took down the nazis and still decided to fuck with them 😭😭😭

[@uniquehedghog]

america didnt take down the nazis

[@LeadLeftLeon]

*who took down the Japanese Empire. Soviets were the ones who killed 3 out of 4 n@zees

[@Darkest_matter]

"best army" ain't shit. ameeica can't beat afghans and russia had three hands full with ukraine.

[@anniein9600]

Russia couldn't beat Afghanistans either, like damn

[@JKribbit]

The Persians, the Mughals, the British Empire, the Soviets, the US all couldnt beat Afghanistan

[@satan7451]

Im Cambodian appreciate for making the video about pol pot btw your edit is 🔥

[@SAMARTBO]

dont forget who overthrow king regimes , the USA deed.

[@Enshadowed]

7:47 bro looks like an asian elon musk

[@atrium1]

Doge Rouge

[@giaungo9520]

Not dumb, just a standard Maoist.

[@tacob0]

CIA asset*

[@vbadimothebadassjackass8011]

@@tacob0 Mao brute*

[@tacob0]

@@vbadimothebadassjackass8011 Kissingers friend*

[@AnukalpPratapsingh-lb1mo]

​@@vbadimothebadassjackass8011it's pretty open knowledge not even kidding that the CIA helped the khmer nationalists after they lost to vietnam

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

​@@vbadimothebadassjackass8011No joke, the US PROPPED this regime along with PRChina just because they want to have an anti-Hanoi ally in the area. You can blame Henry Kissinger for that...

[@daemon_knight]

Who were the NPCs that carried out the dumbest dictator’s orders?

[@criticman123]

Communists

[@downbad_gamerz5136]

They really didn’t have much of a choice tbf do or die situation

[@emilv22]

@@downbad_gamerz5136well the reason they couldn’t is because of the violent npcs that were carrying out his orders

[@epicclown4587]

even the soldiers of his own army had it bad

[@dansmith1661]

@@downbad_gamerz5136 Was it that or because he was more popular than the alternatives.

[@chauKlet]

My mom escaped the Khmer Rouge and she told me many stories but one always shook me. One night when my mom was a child in Cambodia she was in the village around a campfire with friends/family. Her sister kept insisting to go home for one reason or another, even though my mom wanted to stay. After her sister finally convinced her to leave, a bomb went off in the village and everyone near the campfire died. She escaped the genocide when she was 17 and came to California where she met my American dad and had me and all my brothers/sisters. She is the strongest person I know and still manages to hike 3-4 miles for the enjoyment before starting her shift at her job. We are grateful to live in this country and every Cambodian I know is respectful of others and the culture around us. Thank you for making this video and bringing knowledge of this conflict to others. 🇰🇭

[@iROChakri]

Meanwhile, Thailand having strong military just sat to enjoy popcorns while observed the bloodshed in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. And no, the communism tried to take over Thailand but Thailand at that time had a very strong monarchy and sense of unity, so the communist party never got a chance to spread.

[@bolle9810]

I'm just gonna be pedantic and point out that Norodom Sihanouk was only King between the years 1941-1955 and 1993-2004, I could throw a word pasta about what he did and was insted between those years but I rather hope that some day someone makes a video about that funny man

[@willkallenbach1481]

Couldn’t believe how few subscribers this guy has. Great video!

[@Brathna-kh]

Hey thanks for doing a topic about that evils monster

[@poccapocca1035]

As Thai person I’m really ashamed that our government that time help hiding him in forest near Thailand border instead of arresting him

[@mateusz5872]

Saying that Stalin made most of the population richer is the most western thing Ive ever heard

[@Wizardrat69]

0:12 no way you the song in, W vid fr

[@blasius-maximus2716]

What is the name song?

[@massaweed420]

@@blasius-maximus2716 "look at the owl" it's a Khmer Rouge song

[@Jargalhurts]

Everytime I think Accelerationist France in HOI4's Red Flood is too kooky and extremist to be realistic, I remind myself Khmer Rouge once existed.

[@RyanKeogh-b7r]

I wonder If Pol Pot had any paintings . . .