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Pol Pot and the Killing Fields

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Jan 26, 2025
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Politics & Ideologies

Pol Pot

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July 25, 2024
Pol Pot

Many remember the movie 'The Killing Fields', but few are aware of the history behind Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Simplified history often equates his rise as merely a byproduct of the Vietnam War, but this is untrue. We look at the decades long lead up to the Khmer Rouge, from Pol Pots Marxist awakening at the University of Paris, to the various attem…

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