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Part Two: The Film Directing Playboy King Who Handed His Country to Pol Pot

Behind the Bastards

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A Tub of Ice Cream, Dictator of North Korea

After 1968, things start to go worse and worse for him. He gives more and more power to the conservatives so that they can fight this war against the communists. There's no longer any kind of a left wing in Cambodian politics because by the late 60s he'd had most of them executed or exiled. So now the only people left are the communists out in the jungle and the right wing and the prince at home.

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