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

Behind the Bastards

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Sianuk's Adventures in Cambodia

In 1941, the French government that appoints him isn't really France, it's Vichy France. So he was appointed king by the puppet government for the Nazi occupiers. The children who grew up in Cambodia's public schools at the time were educated to Patein as standards which emphasized unity, order, and labor. One of the children in these schools was a guy named Saloth Tsar who would grow into Pol Pot.

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