r/DebateCommunism • u/No-Self-8941 • 8d ago

Did the Soviets and the western bloc support the Khmer Rouge? 📖 Historical

I’m aware that the PRC backed the Khmer Rouge and invaded Vietnam for intervening against Cambodia. But did The soviets under Brezhnev support the Khmer Rouge?

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u/ComradeCaniTerrae 8d ago

It became a Sino-Soviet proxy conflict between the USSR and China. Each wanting the political forces which favored them more to win.

I think the whole world has since understood the error in this. Thankfully, Vietnam ended the Khmer Rouge’s rule, and then fought it for decades while it hid along the border of Thailand receiving U.S. government aid and support.

Pol Pot died under house arrest, comfortably, of old age, in 1998 with a legacy of decades serving as a U.S. stooge bent on couping his own country for U.S. imperialist interests.

He died as an American lapdog—and a traitor to his people. Some suspect that this is all he ever was.

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u/Hankman66 8d ago

Pol Pot died under house arrest, comfortably, of old age, in 1998 with a legacy of decades serving as a U.S. stooge bent on couping his own country for U.S. imperialist interests.

He was very ill and living in very uncomfortable circumstances under house arrest in a shack. When he heard the US was trying to get him arrested and brought to trial he commited suicide.

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u/ComradeCaniTerrae 7d ago edited 7d ago

Significantly more comfortable than a traitorous butcher deserves, but yes--you are correct. He only spent 18 of the 19 years he remained alive--after he genocided over a million people--free and comfortable, before he started ordering the assassination of veteran members of his terrorist warband and one of them deposed him. Yes.

Still treated the dog better than he had any right to be treated (in my opinion, of course).

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u/Hankman66 7d ago edited 6d ago

Sure, but he was never captured by his enemies. He lived comfortably in Trat in Thailand for many years before he moved to Anlong Veng and often visited Beijing and Bangkok for medical and other reasons. His movement was eventually sidelined and abandoned by its former benefactors and trading partners who had already begun working with the government.

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u/ComradeCaniTerrae 6d ago

I appreciate the nuanced historical understanding. My main point was that communists of today fairly much universally condemn him as a revisionist and opportunist. And a butcher.

Thank you for the correction, comrade.

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u/Hankman66 8d ago

No, they supported the People's Republic of Kampuchea and armed the PRK to fight the Khmer Rouge.

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u/ChampionOfOctober ☭Marxist☭ 8d ago

no, the khmer rouge was a proxy of maoists and american imperialism in opposition to vietnam and ussr.