Seal of Democratic Kampuchea

Working in Democratic Kampuchea

Khmer (ខ្មែរក្រហម) Rouge Cartoon

When a government kills a lot of people there are bound to be survivors with negative opinions. This is an anti- Khmer (ខ្មែរក្រហម) Rouge Cartoon.

Pol Pot pop art

Another artists rendition of Pol Pot.

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The Communist Party of Kampuchea turned against the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of Kampuchea turned against the Soviet Union after Stalin died. In The Black Papers, one of their few public documents, they said:

"During the stay of the delegation of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Hanoi, Le Duan wanted to induce the Communist Party of Kampuchea to establish relations with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He reported that the Soviet Ambassador to Hanoi would like to meet the delegation of the Communist Party of Kampuchea to invite it to pay a visit to Moscow.
The delegation of the Communist Party of Kampuchea told Le Duan that the Communist Party of Kampuchea did not oppose the Soviet Union. Its tasks consisted only of achieving its objective which was to lead Kampuchea’s revolution to victory. It did not want to interfere in the China-Soviet difference. But the Soviet Union has shown its hostility towards the Communist Party of Kampuchea. Indeed, in 1964, the Soviet Embassy in Phnom Penh strove to set up in Kampuchea another communist party and charged the Communist Party of Kampuchea with being an inefficient Party and of having an absurd line. The communist party that the Soviet Union wanted to set up should have been made of on the one hand the renegades at the time of the struggle against the French colonialists, such as Siv Heng and Pen Youth who became intelligence agents in the Lon No! clique’s pay and on the other hand the students from the Khmero-Sovietique Technical Institute in Phnom Penh. But in the end, that party could not come to life for lack of people’s support. Concerning the meeting that the Soviet Ambassador was asking for, the delegation of the Communist Party of Kampuchea answered that it would be better to postpone it."

Pol Pot and the French Revolution

Pol Pot hated Kings and he was fascinated with the French Revolution. There are clear similarities between the French Directorate, after the execution of Louis XVI, KingLouis XVI, KingLouis XVI, KingKing Louis XVI, and the Angkar Padevoat. The adoption of a new calander with the year zero even resembles the new French revolutionary government.

Pol Pot and Stalin

Pol Pot and his comrades were originally very found of Joseph Stalin. After he died, they became very anti-Soviet Union.

MLP! Not MLM

From the Pol Pot Journals:

There have been a few times when some people have refered to me as a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. Wrong. Mao was an ally, but he is dead now and the MLM movement has disowned me. That is fine with me because I have my own international, the MLP movement. That’s right, Marxist-Leninists-Polists.

Mao made a lot of mistakes in his time. I remember being in Tienaman square and witnessing the activities of the Cultural Revolution. It was chaotic, with people running around with leaflets everywhere. Mao didn’t have a peasant revolution. He just used the peasants to get control of the country. He spent much of his time trying to industrialize the country instead of focusing on making it better for the peasants. He sent city people out to stay with the peasants for a few months. What good did that do? They just ended up going back to the city as if nothing ever happened. How can they learn about farming and peasant work such a short time?

Mao was a staunch ally. He supported us with all the weapons we needed to win our war. He stood by all his allies and I applaud him for that. But I made it clear from the start, that we would have full autonomy to run our country as we see fit, with no interference with China. Mao agreed, but later, when we told him we had eliminated class distinctions he had the nerve to say:

“Certainly you have made mistakes. So rectify yourselves: do rectification!” After many years of revolution, salaries are not equal. We have a slogan of equality---but we don’t carry it out. How many years will it take to change that? Until we become communist? This matter is not clear.”

We had our own clear headed leaders and we didn’t need to be patronized by Mao just because he had a much bigger country. If we had more resources and people, we would have done a much better job.

Remember, we are Khmer, not Chinese. Anyone or group today can join my MLP international. I always felt I would someday outdo Mao. I still think my time will come.