When asked why he emptied the cities, Pol Pot stated that the US had already been bombing areas of Eastern Cambodia, and that he (and the Khmer Leadership) were apprehensive that the US would launch a vast and sustained bombing campaign upon Cambodian cities and towns – much like the years’s of US destruction wrought upon North Vietnam.
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Pol Pot (in Russian sources) An Assessment of Conditioned Events
As US interference in Cambodia, (together with royalist intrigue), was plunging the country into lawlessness, Pol Pot stated that a strict and disciplined political regime was required to establish social stability through law and order. To achieve this transformation, Pol Pot devised a system of dividing the Cambodian population into three distinct categories:
Soviet War Memorial UK (9.5.2017): Commemorating the Soviet Victory Over Nazi Germany and Exposing Bourgeois Duplicity
Today, the ordinary people of Britain are living in a democratic system that allows a small middle class to keep electing rightwing governments (including ‘New Labour’) that deliberately pursue rightwing policies that are hurtful toward the working class. This demonstrates that the fight against fascism is not only in the past (as the bourgeois would have us believe), but exists here and now in the present.
UK-USSR Comradeship During WWII: What Many Modern British People Forget…
My maternal grandfather – Arthur Gibson – for instance, served aboard the minesweeper HMS Beaumaris Castle (of the Royal Navy Patrol Group), keeping the sea-lanes of the North Atlantic clear of Nazi German U-boats and sea-mines, so that the Atlantic Conveys could take much needed aid to the USSR.
Nazi German Atrocities During WWII (in Photographs)
These photographs should remind those who get ‘blurry eyed’ at the devastation wrought on Hitler’s Germany by the ‘liberating’ Red Army – as if the Nazis were somehow the ‘victims’ of WWII (despite the Jewish Holocaust that cost around 6 million lives)!
Paul Robeson (Поль Робсон): A Full Human-Being in the USSR!
Paul Robeson was the greatest of Marxist-Leninists and dedicated to freeing the International Working Class!