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Pol Pot did not destroy the 2 or 3 million people in the Indochina War, the U.S. has destroyed 600 000 Cambodians and left millions more homeless and starving.

Sometimes criticism of Mao Zedong or the current "Sendero Luminoso" says Pol Pot, the political leader, often accused of genocide in Cambodia / Kampuchea, was the Maoists. Horn bourgeoisie like New Republic also say that the "Shining" admirers of Pol Pot.

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As most readers know nothing about Mao or Pol Pot, the effect is that Maoism is equivalent to genocide. This is just another means of bourgeois propagandists simplistic provide communism as the evil. Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge revolutionary group, regarded itself as communist. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized power in a country which was then called Cambodia.

Naturally, since the Khmer Rouge seized power in-backed right-wing regime, they were subjected to abuse the U.S. imperialist circles, regardless of whether they were Maoists or not. Consequently, it is necessary to separate the anti-communist and pro-imperialist propaganda from what may be the truth in the charges of Pol Pot's genocide.

Already by 1975, approximately 10% of the Cambodian population 600 000 people. Died as a result of the Vietnam War. These 600 000 deaths were caused by U.S. attempts to find in Cambodia, the Vietnamese communists.

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Disposal of Nixon's bombing of Cambodia and the invasion of U.S. troops into Cambodia was a turning point movement against the Vietnam War in the United States. Today, however, many who have never opposed the U.S. role in Indochina, condemn the violence of Pol Pot. It's just hypocrisy, to avoid trouble, because people forget about the Indochina War the United States.

U.S. provoked the war - the bombing, in particular - has also led to the 2 million refugees who flooded the city. Cities then become dependent on U.S. food aid because of war and insolvency legal regime of Lon Nol.

Consequently, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge seized power by Lon Nol in 1975 in the worst possible situation: people are starving; Kampuchea was the poorest country in the world, and a third of the population were refugees.

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Next prosecution, which often sounds from the imperialist critics - that Pol Pot was suppressed people, forcibly displaced from their towns. It is true that Pol Pot was liberated Phnom Penh, however, given that these people were starving and that the economy was in ruins, from an economic point of view, the movement was not a bad idea. It seems that saving lives is usually not considered critics of the Khmer Rouge. Even in this case, as a minus, Khmer Rouge recognized that 2-3 thousand people died in the process of moving from Phnom Penh.

The next charge - that in carrying out the alleged insane communist policy, Pol Pot killed people just for frivolous reasons or even without such. However, as in his criticism of Stalin, the bourgeois propagandists miss some subtleties.

Pol Pot was not destroyed 2 or 3 million people, although this leaves the impression of the press, refraining from self-explanatory. Pol Pot killed in the 1975-79 years. 75 0007 up to 150 000 people, mostly residents belonging to the upper class or the intelligentsia.Vietnam invaded Kampuchea in December 1978 and overthrew the Khmer Rouge in January 1979.

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Data on 2 or 37 millions follow from the calculations of all deaths in the period 1975-1979. Based on estimates of population.Finnish investigative committee (Finnish inquiry commission) finds that during the Pol Pot died on 1 million or even less. At least several thousand of these deaths were caused by repeated military clashes with Vietnam.

Serious famine again followed the final Vietnamese invasion in December 1978 and at the beginning of international aid for many it was too late. 2 million, or 30% of all deaths in 1970 of U.S. military action, during the period of Pol Pot and the Vietnamese invasion.

Pol Pot - not Maoist

Pol Pot never called himself a Maoist in the life of Mao.

Mao never called Pol Pot's Maoist.

Pol Pot never supported the "Gang of Four", Mao's successor, and actually called them "counter-revolutionaries".

MFA does not consider Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge as a model.

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Moreover, it is necessary to separate the truth from the imperialist invention, it is impossible completely to protect the Pol Pot in connection with the simple fact that he is - an opportunist, not the Maoists.

It would be wrong to say that between the Khmer Rouge and China had no relations. At various times of the Maoist press celebrated the struggle of the Vietnamese, Cambodian and Korean people for self-determination and the restoration of their country, but never called them Communist Party Maoist. China has also provided assistance to these and other countries such as Tanzania in Africa, which are not even claimed to be communist.

Pol Pot himself never called himself a Maoist until the death of Mao. But even then, Pol Pot as prime minister, condemned the successors of Mao's "Gang of Four" 22 October 1976.

After more than 20 years, during which Pol Pot had insisted that there should be no way to separate foreign revolutionary leader, he declared himself the new leader of Maoist China, Hua Guofeng (who also claimed to be the successor to Mao) in October 1977, a month after addition, as Vietnam has sent soldiers to Kampuchea to 10-mile deep through the 650-mile border.

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Even then, comrades, Pol Pot in Kampuchea emphasized among themselves and the people that the Khmer Rouge are independent and not follow anyone's fairway. In any case, by October 1977 not only Mao was already dead, but supporters arrested Hua Mao, "a gang of four, including Mao's wife Jiang Qing.

Hua also rehabilitated Deng Xiaoping, and, ironically, operates today under his leadership. One of the recent actions before the death of Mao, Deng Xiaoping was cleaned with government positions and from the party leadership.

In other words, Pol Pot called himself a Maoist, but it took the arrest "gang of four". Consequently, Pol Pot was never a real Maoist standards MFA.

In 1977, Pol Pot criticized Deng Xiaoping as a counterrevolutionary. However, in 1979, and after the Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea, Pol Pot praised Deng Xiaoping. Discussions on Maoism were discarded, because the supreme leader Deng Xiaoping began China, replacing Hua Guofeng.

Pol Pot himself described the Maoists, only to receive military assistance and support from China. He changed his line in favor of those who were currently in power in Beijing, and has never supported the "gang of four".

In fact, the accusation that "Sendero Luminoso" - admirers of Pol Pot - a lie. Like the Foreign Ministry, "Sendero" supports the "gang of four".

To say that Pol Pot Maoist - also a lie. The only possible truth in these allegations - that some of the theory of Pol Pot, like Mao's theory. But it is also true for many theories of Third World revolutionaries.

Although it is - an interesting question to what extent the Khmer Rouge took some of the ideas that were Maoist, or a more extreme version of Maoism, and it is interesting to evaluate the success or failure of their policies, is simply wrong for a journalist to attribute the Khmer Rouge to the Maoists. Studying these problems requires much more research than is possible in the article «New Republic.