S2 Ep2: Maoism, the Great Leap Forward / Famine and the Sino-Soviet Split
In the Shadows of Utopia: The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Nightmare
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The Military Structure of the Revolution
The revolution came out of a violent civil war, indeed decades of war. The party itself was used to this kind of violence as a means of achieving its revolutionary aims. There is a certain necessary, I guess, callousness and calculative thinking that goes into militarism,. Like a war can only be won through a given amount of human sacrifice to achieve victory in battle. In the same way, the regime may have considered their path to communism as having a necessary amount of human casualty.
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