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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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Cambodian Communist Sannek's Promise to the Vietnamese

In the mid 50s, Pol Pot decides that democracy's bullshit and shortly thereafter takes to the jungle with all of his friends and comrades to do a jungle communist shit. Sannek is largely backed by conservatives, but he himself is not a conservative or a leftist. He is a hemost. His only guiding moral principle is that he should be in charge of Cambodia. So he doesn't really give a shit about politics. He just wants to be the guy.

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