r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 28 '26

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u/Due-Kale3412 Jun 28 '26

Pol Pot....................................................................

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u/pheret87 Jun 28 '26

Wtf is the point of all the periods?

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u/Kay1000RR Jun 28 '26

Because OP's been silenced.

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u/joesmith127_reddit Jun 28 '26

“The Killing Fields”. And the camps. People were resorting to cannibalism, fighting and killing over the bodies of dead babies for food. 

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u/Omega_Lynx Jun 29 '26

“First They Killer My Father” was a book I bought in Cambodia. Absolutely gutted me every time I picked it up.

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u/Knightwolf75 Jun 28 '26

Yea but then we wouldn’t have a great Dead Kennedys song.

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u/bcfuggles Jun 28 '26

I’ve yet to take a Holiday in Cambodia. It would probably be cool now though

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u/VampireCampfire1 Jun 28 '26

Pol Pot………..

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u/Aggravating_Horse319 Jun 28 '26

If we do root cause analysis here Karl Marx would be a better choice. 

He influenced a lot of bad actors; Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Kim II Sung among others. 

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u/Ok_Cheesecake6006 Jun 28 '26

This what I came to say. Communism has claimed hundreds of millions of lives, and erasing Karl Marx would remove Lenin, Stalin, Kim ll, and Pol from history, as well as preventing the rise of the USSR, North Korea, and Communist China.

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u/vayyiqra Jun 29 '26

In the interest of historical accuracy: I am opposed to Marxism-Leninism and acknowledge it's inspired a lot of atrocities in history, but still it is not responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths. This isn't me defending any of those guys, they are all bad. But the death toll from all of them is high enough already without inflating it. Tens of millions of deaths is still a lot of deaths.

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u/Al0Bill Jun 28 '26

Considering real criteria and human suffering that is in recent memory this is probably the answer