Leon Trotsky
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This would make even Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier blush.That is just evil, even Stalin wasn't that paranoid!
This would make even Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier blush.That is just evil, even Stalin wasn't that paranoid!
Am I the only one who doubts there would be an overthrow? Didn't Pol Pot carefully cull his ranks every few years and with almost everyone in a camp without food, who makes a good revolutionary?
Well, of course, that is the real difference: though in some places, they actually 'rule', for a given value of the word, they are not generally trying to affirm themselves to the outside world as the exclusive and legitimate rulers of the place.
In a sense, Daesh was the same, as in they weren't claiming any specific area, and also they notionally did not care at all about what others thought of their legitimacy or lack thereof (they were seeking some form of "effective" rule, as opposed to recognition of it).
In another sense, obviously they were not the same in the sense that their aim was indeed to construct a political structure (which the Mafia is not generally interested in running, since it is less profitable than its other endeavours).
Pretty much anyone is much better than Pol Pot. Even ISIS and North Korea.I agree, the sad fact a lot of psychotic dictatorships lasted a long time. Stalin and Mao ruled their respective countries their entire lives and neither was that much better than Pol Pot.
Pretty much anyone is much better than Pol Pot. Even ISIS and North Korea.
True, but the regime likely would have fallen apart after his death.That might be true, but that doesn't mean he would have been overthrown.
It is not clear to me how much longer the Khmer Rouge could stay in power, if only because the Pol Pot regime was destroying the underpinnings of the Cambodian state. How can the Khmer Rouge run a country—how well?—if the educated and the urbanites are all dead? I wonder if the border clashes which led to the Vietnamese invasion might have been an example of just this sort of phenomenon.
Nobody thinks it could run it well, it proved totally incapable of doing so OTL. What we think is that it could potentially run it indefinitely.
Pretty much anyone is much better than Pol Pot. Even ISIS and North Korea.
Am I the only one who doubts there would be an overthrow? Didn't Pol Pot carefully cull his ranks every few years and with almost everyone in a camp without food, who makes a good revolutionary?