Thoughts on Pol Pot
Seems like a dude who wasn't really even communist who just killed a shit ton of people to me. Especially because he lived with the Cambodian royal family for a bit with his relatives.
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The US backed him and portrayed Vietnam as imperialists for fighting against him, so that should really tell you most (though not all) about what you need to know.
I don't understand how someone can be a communist and an ethno-nationalist simultaneously.
Pol Pot managed to killed maybe a maximum of three million people. This is nowhere near as prolific as the death toll that Joseph Stalin had.