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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.