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 Influence of Salat Sa on Cambodia's History
In certain circumstances, it's warranted to look at the personalities of people in charge when looking for some measure of cause and effect. And this is kind of a case in point with Mao. We've seen him wave his handed figures of thousands of people being expected to die in irrigation projects, but you know, that pales in capacity. He once famously spoke of a nuclear holocaust in terms that shocked other world leaders saying that, hey, I'm not afraid of nuclear war. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. It doesn't matter if some are killed. China has a population of 600 million, even if half of them are killed. You know, we're getting
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