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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Khmer Rouge is basically the archetype of the maniacal genocidal despotic party of incompetents liberals try to portray every communist government as

Funnily enough they were also the only communist party I can think of to directly receive US support

[–] Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago

The Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party after/ during the Ogaden War also was

[–] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I read that the early Communist Party of China received some CIA support (namely money and guns) to finish off Chiang-Kai Shek's fascist/nationalist movement during the later periods of the armed struggle.

I'm still not quite sure what to think of the Khmer Rouge, but I read that they did collectivize agriculture.

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