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May 2025
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Part Three: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A ...

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Pol Pot and his friends are now in charge of Cambodia and in a remarkably short period of time they manage to kill two million people. Including a leftist academic from the UK who thought the Khmer Rouge was rad. Here's how!

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