The Deadliest Dictator Isn't Who You Think
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It's kinda crazy to me that Pol Pot barely gets any mention online compared to the big 3. Dude was a genuine menace and thats putting it lightly.
Exactly why I made this video!
might be because people have been able to make jokes about Hitler, Stalin & Mao. Whenever Pol Pot is brought up in a “meme” it’s not because he looks funny or has a distinct feature that people know him for (e.g. Stalin & Hitler’s staches or Mao’s mole), but it’s because of the amount of people he killed. Does that make any sense? Croissant btw
Possibly because Cambodia is a small country compared to Germany, the Soviet Union and China.
@@Drew..0 i think its because with stalin, stache dude and mao people find them funny because haha funny gulags or some shit but pol pot is genuinely disturbing.
@@Pancasilaist8752 Yeah I suppose. Still, considering what kinda shit Pol Pot was pulling off you'd think he he'd get talked about more often.
To me, not only is Pol Pot the deadliest dictator, but he’s also the craziest. As bad as they are, you can at least see some twisted logic behind Hitler, Stalin, and Mao’s policies. Meanwhile, Pol Pot’s ideas and plans made absolutely no sense
Churchill had his twisted logic, too, when he starved millions of Indians to death in 1943 and said it was their fault to breed so much
He just wanted to torture people he hated, I think.
İt's kinda crazy how all of these dictatora had more logic than this guy
Wow, UA-cam hid my comment about Stalin
@@pushista9322what did you said in your comment?
Croissant
PS: Cambodian-American here, thank you for making this video and bringing light onto the Rouge, I thought I’d add some extra details into your video.
1: Pol Pots’ regime was so severe that his name is almost quite literally banned as a taboo.
2: Because the majority of our culture has been purged during those 4 years, things such as food is very heavily influenced from our thai & vietnamese neighbors as a result. This purge was also so severe that only 22 pieces of music ever survived during and after the regime (Cambodian Rocks on Wikipedia)
3: In the Killing Fields, they would blast propaganda music on speakers in order to muffle the screams of the people being killed.
My grandmother was one such example who fortunately made it out alive. She had a burn scar on the bottom of her foot from when she was living back there. As for the rest of my extended family, they may be missing or have been killed after we left for the states.
Wow, thank you for sharing your grandmother's experience from that time. I'm very happy to have made this video to bring more awareness to experiences like hers. I'm working on my third video right now, and can't wait to share it with you when I'm done
@jaredjams4267no thats so gross dont compare your stupid ass fictional villain to this very real and sadistic person who ruined and ended millions of lives
One thing I have an issue with is the kill % of Hitler. The number of people affected by his rule as dictator stretched far outside the borders of Germany. Therefore you should be using the total combined population of the countries which had their troops/people killed. Not just the population at the time of Germany.
Agreed
this is nonsense. the war was one of imperialism.
this would lower the percentage I think, correct?
Turns out. Killing and torturing people that could be protecting your country and building your economy actually has consequences.
Kim Jong Un:- Sweating Profusely
@@anirudht7601Kim Jong un while bad is nothing compared to pol pot
I never knew that Pol Pot lived until 1998, I’d always assumed that he’d been killed after being removed from power. The fact that he was never brought to justice is absolutely appalling.
Well, apparently, he coincidentally died in the *exact same day* he was actually declared an international criminal. Curious...
things like this make me real glad hell exists.
Same thing happened to Hirohito so yeah
America being america lmao
He could've heard Limp Bizkit
It was sad because he still ran his regime in a corner, and still supported by US and the others around who we "against communism".
It's the definition of "you could save puppies from a burning house, but they'll salute the arsonist if society labels you the villian"
It's pol pot. Dude dropped the average life span in cambodia in 1975 down to 12.
You got it right!! CONGRATULATIONS!
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I belive you've made a mistake when comparing stalin mao and Hitler, hitler killed 17 milion but not from only the germany population of 79 milion but also poland, Czechia, france, Beligum, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Denmark, norwey, the soviet union and their allies/subjects.
But the soviets also probably killed civilians in poland Lithuania etc.
The fact he lived almost until the 21st century when the average life expectancy during his rule was 18 is disgusting.
You wouldn't say that to his face buddy. You are nobody to judge what is a crime and what is not.
If you have problem with somebody, then do something about it physically, dont cry about morality
Billions of animals are killed for food every year how is that acceptable? Animals are just as capable of suffering as humans. You don't consider it disgusting?
@tvesarathavrtraghna3688 What are you yapping about? Say it to his face? What face? The one 12 feet under? Because if you put him in a room with me, I'd gladly say it to his face. He was pretty much a fossil before his death.
@@Dashuyan88bigmacs are so good tho
@@Dashuyan88 Are you retarded?
@@Dashuyan88 are you really comparing animals to humans?
I'm an 80 year old Brit. I lived and worked as a hands on engineer in Cambodia from 1998 to 2018. I met a Cambodian lady in 2000 and married her in 2002. She suffered and was abused under Pol Pot, abandoned with two small children.
I, along with her raised the two kids to be super adults, now with their own families living in Cambodia.
I retired , with my Cambodian wife back to UK in 2018. She is a lovely lady, full of kindness and liked by all who meet her. But there are times when the memories of those awful times come back to her, she stops talking and tears start rolling down her cheeks.
She’s lucky to have you.
Thank you for sharing
No 80 year old is using youtube
@@Antbrat4.0it’s rare but it’s still possible
@@Antbrat4.0ohh ye
Ah they are
Before watching, let me take a guess: Ghengis Khan
Edit: I lost 😢
You actually have not:this video is about death per population not the actual deadliest Dictator
You have lost:Ghengis Khan had successor who completed his work so not him only
(And tha's actually another topic🤔)
Good guess :)
@@bofangchang Ey yo angy yellow cat with a youtue channel here we meet again 🗿🍷
What is the best way to rule a nation : Copy from the worst ones that always works
@@dearrobloxiscool actually rashidun caliphate had the best ruling system before the arab dynasties you know so bruh 🤓👆
Guessing Pol Pot
Edit: got it! Pol Pots legacy is embedded in Cambodian culture in ways youd be surprised about. Terrantula is considerd a delicacy because it was one of the few sources of protein you could get in his camps. Its horrifying.
Croissant. In college, our teacher asked us what our favorite animal was and a Cambodian kid said "Pol Pot." I understand what he meant now. Thanks Mr. Chang
I'm not sure where my response went, but thank you for sharing this story. :)
@KingMeruem-sm7wpWe have shown ourselves to be so much worse than animals. Animals don't do this to each other
@@aethie Yes, they do!
@@aethie Animals do this to each other all the time.
Humans just know how _why_ we do that, and why it's wrong.
@@aethie don't be ridiculous, just watch natgeowild or animal planet, animals are also do horrible stuff
- Massacres MILLIONS of people in just 4 years
- Displaces MILLIONS of more people
- Destroys tons of knowledge
But dies peacefully in bed in 1998, at the ripe age of 73
Protected by satan, friggin diabolical
Got the die peaceful because they had a weak opinion on the ussr…
@@The_whales
Yeah...
Wore glasses, too. A death sentence under his rule.
@@ilovedouma7676 same as Donald Rumsfeld and Henry Kissinger
I'm a cambodian myself and I've heard stories from my grandparents on the harsh conditions that they had to live through during those 4 years. And lemme tell you they cried almost everytime they told those stories to me and my siblings on how their friends were massacred and the fact that they didn't even get a single ounce of freedom for 4 grueling years is just mind boggling to think about it.
Thank you for sharing, it must have been heartbreaking for them to recall that time. Wishing them the best.
how do they teach cambodians about pol pot's regime in school? is it a common theme to talk about in cambodia? are there memorials and stuff like that?
@@snoopy4554 yeah it's in the text books for like 5th graders
People that died because of hitler were mainly polish and soviets. The axis combined lost around 20 million of their civillian population, this can be from allied bombing and soviet killing for example. So i think its wrong to say that hitler killed 20% of his own population.
Pol Pot's Cambodia is one of the greatest sins of the US, esp. Kissinger and Nixon. The bombing of Cambodia which was a neutral state led to Pol Pot's rule. He was worst than a Nazi. And supporting it after it was known what happened in those four grisly years was also incredibly immoral.
You make it sound like they were bad people.
The entire US government has been under total *ZIONI$T* occupation since *THEY* founded the Federal Reserve in 1913, and we've been in a constant state of war ever since. *Kissinger* obviously being one of *THEM.*
@@dansmith1661but kissinger was a bad person.
@@dansmith1661 Kissinger has the blood of tens of millions of people on his hands, under the guise of being 'an effective secretary of state'.
In case you don't know why:
- Provided support to Pakistan for the Bangladeshi genocide, causing the deaths of over 2 million people and leaving permanent scars on Bangladesh, mostly brain drain and a low HDI (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_genocide )
-Sent massive amounts of supplies to Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, keeping Israel as a thorn in the Middle East (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War )
-Launched one of the largest bombing campaigns in human history in Vietnam and Laos, leading to the deaths of millions of people and the eventual rise of communism in all three 3 states (in the vid above)
-Provided support for the Indonesian dictatorship in destroying East Timor, and leaving the region as a genocide occured (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_invasion_of_East_Timor )
There is alot more stuff you can read about, but you might go insane just seeing the full list of his war crimes and crimes against humanity. Just thj
@@dansmith1661 they ARE bad people
There is one criticism: Hitler didn’t just take German Jews, Gypsies, twins, homosexuals, etc, he took them from France, Italy, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Norway, the Benelux, Denmark, Occupied Russia, Greece, etc. If you wanted it to be more accurate, you should have included ALL of occupied Europe, as, again, it wasn’t just German victims. If you were to only look at who he murdered in Germany, then his kill count would be closer to 4 or 5 million corpses.
Yeah, I was wondering that as well
generally where he took all those people from were parts that were invaded and subsequenty ruled by nazi germany, so what should be included are really only those areas that were ruled by the nazis
He was only counting people who died under his command, that goes for all the people mentioned they’d all be higher if you used your measurement.
Well, he did not get those from Bulgaria.
@@Burzovar not all that were in Bulgaria true, but he got an estimated 1050. From when the Wehrmacht marched through to get to Greece and Yugoslavia.
As a Jew, who lost almost all of my family who remained in Europe, I didn't think that there could be anyone worse than Hitler, or Stalin. But, after watching this, I have to change my opinion. This monster did this act of barbarity to his own people. What I don't understand is why these other "leaders" didn't try to kill him, when he started coming after them, not that they didn't get what they deserved, however.
Unfortunately, most of the "leaders" in the establishment, would not realize that dictators like Pol Pot or Hitler are in for a "zero-sum" game until it becomes too late. Similar scenario happened when Hitler obliterated all other parties in the Reichstag by abusing the "state of emergency" loophole in Weimar Republic's constitution, all while other party leaders naively thought they could just negotiate with Hitler and stay in power. Elites in the establishment back then had remained in their comfort zone and "played by the rules" for too long.
I mean, Shitler and scrawny Georgian man also knocked off millions of their own people.
I knew it was gonna be Pol Pot
Also he died on my birthday!
Croissant
Another chilling fact: over 20,000 people entered S-21, and 12 survived. It had a 99.999% death rate.
*99,94%~
Unit 731 is worse
Never ask Elon Musk what he was doing in Cambodia 1975-1979
Nah thats erron musk (his dad because elon musk was only 5 years old in that year)
nah it's just his prototype model, hopefully his final version doesn't try to do that as well
Elon musk is smart enough, we don't need to turn him Asian guys
Playing with kids toys?
To be fair about the % of the Austrian painter, most of his victims were in countries conquered by Germany, in large parts Poland and the western USSR. So the population pool should be of all the occupied areas in Europe instead of just Germany, which would lower his % dramatically.
yeah that's true, most of his atrocities and genocides were committed abroad (eastern europe in particular)
Exactly, USSR lost 14% during WW2 and Poland lost 17%
@@Neqtunezz with the USSR it's also a bit hard to estimate exactly which deaths were soviet cruelty and which were a consequence from the war as a lot of overlap did occur with things like the military purges and penal battalions being ordered to clear minefields with no equipment.
@@discipleofdagon8195 that's partly why the margin of error is in the millions.
Forgot to add that the croissant is also from Austria, not from France
Two points on your intro: Arguing that hitler killed 21% of germany’s population is a little misleading. He killed a LOT of non-germans, ie europe’s Jews, russian prisoners, etc. Death counts in the millions for sure of non-germans which affects that percentage.
If you want to say he killed 21% as many people as he ruled over, that’s a little less clear but I think less misleading.
After a little more watching: yooooo I guessed you were talking about pol pot haha
Point number two: going strictly off population percentage slain is not a suitable single metric for world’s deadliest. Let’s extrapolate this idea to the extreme: if some little village has a ruler that kills all 100 people in that village, can he really be considered to be more deadly than guys like pol pot, hitler, stalin, or mao? Part if the danger in these huge historical figures’ regimes is how hard it is to stop them. It took tens of millions of lives to stop hitler. It took 50 years of nuclear cold war to stop the USSR (granted nobody was as bad as stalin). Anybody can go in with a gun and stop the dude who has a 100% kill rate. Now, this gets muddier once you pass a few thousand people, but the point remains that when considering loss of precious human life, quantity is ALWAYS more awful than efficiency. Pol Pot was AWFUL, but the guys above him on the list were deadlier. Hitler also somewhat uniquely caused deaths by starting ww2 meaning his war-mongering tendencies add to his self-destructive (murdering his coontrymen) as well as his genocidal tendencies in a way that some of these other guys really can’t
The 2nd point is flawed imo. Yes, there were more people, but there were also more resources to cause destruction. It's like saying Adólf is deadlier because he killed 2 instead of 1, but he actually had another person with him to cause more destruction.
What's especially chilling about this percentage is that compared to other dictators with a massive civilian death toll he was in charge for a lot shorter time. Stalin had a 12% death rate in a generation. Hitler had a 21% death rate in 12 years. Pol Pot had 36% death rate *in four*
So true!
Indeed
Instead of reading sparknotes on Marx, Pol Pot should've read about Robespierre. He pretty much repeated the mistakes and the paranoia of the First French Republic.
His regime also had a lot in common with Big Brother in 1984.
Just like every other socialist.
I live in a democracy that have been ruled by elected socialist presidents and never had any of these problems in recent history. Know your facts. @@kingofcards9516
he was an anarcho-primitivist, not a socialist, nor any flavor of communist. still a piece of shit nonetheless. i just disike when the blame is pinned on communism. the khmer rouge was brought to power by the aid of western powers - most significantly, the US.
he actually did read Robspierre. Which makes perfect sense
The 12% for Hitler is very misleading, because it highly depends what death in WW2 you count as caused by him. On top of that, what population pool you should choose is also unclear. At the height of third Reich the occupied territories stretched from Atlantic coast to Volga and that's lot more people than just population of Germany proper
I'm sure the youtuber did his research
@@sakesaurusI feel Hitler is overrated by modern history
@@PepeVoltaireBartolemeMontesqui sadly he is. And Axis is also not as bad as many people think. I still would prefer economic dependance to the west, though, to the insanity of third reich. Even though USSR and CCP depended on western relief. I like some aspects of both. And hate others.
@@sakesaurus Did his research ? By claiming that the famous man killed 21% of his population ? Do not take my word for it I'm literally quoting him: "It's estimated that teh nootsies killed upwards of 17 milion people they ruled over...." *later in the video* "The population in nazi Germany was 79 milion people" The man disagrees with himself in his own video. People they ruled over =/= Nazi germany. Maybe put into perspective that I don't know Germany had taken over the whole continetal Europe in 3 years ?
@@obediah2031 people they ruled over = nazi germany
my great grandfather was almost killed bc he was a doctor but he acted dumb and survived during this pol pot rule
I think it's worth mentioning that the ratio you worked out for Hitler, might be inaccurate as a lot of the people killed not only came from Germany but also from conquered regions and allied regimes. The 79M population figure is also only the population of the Germany in 1939 i.e. pre war.
You'd have to add all the deaths from world war two on top of that
@@MerluchWell Hitler didn't really cause the Pacific War deaths, so maybe not count those?
he hearted and pinned all the comments praising him except yours calling out the blatant error lol.
@@dolsopolar Um, you can only pin one comment per video. Hearts are unlimited, though.
@@dolsopolar This comment was posted a day ago and this video was uploaded two weeks ago. Content Creators don't live on the Internet my boy, they have lives like us.
Croissant
As an American, I'm disgusted that my country would support such an awful person, just for being an enemy of the USSR. I can't believe he was never brought to justice.
On a lighter note, amazing video! I hope you keep making more :)
Thanks for watching and your nice comment, here's my promised reply! Hope you subscribed for more :)
Your country has done a lot worse lmfao
@@imafraidjumitebeinagang no shit 💀
Haha you should get used to it lmao cause that’s what America did many, many times.
@@MrKumiespecialy south America
King Leopold the second in the Belgium Conga
Something about Pol Pot is so much more disturbing to me than many of the other dictators. His regime just seems completely fueled by nothing other than blood and suffering, and he’s just a very unnerving person. I heard a recording of him speaking and, without exaggeration, I got goosebumps.
Its nature. Nature is full of suffering.
Billions of animals are killed for food every year how is that acceptable? Animals are just as capable of suffering as humans. You don't consider it disturbing? Interviews of meat eaters dont give you goosbumps?
It's life and survival. We need meat to survive. Its nothing wrong
@@Dashuyan88 okay so LOTS to unpack here
@@Dashuyan88Go fuck yourself, vegan
@@Dashuyan88
there’s a difference between killing for survival and killing for its own sake. if i really have to explain this to you, then you’re either a sociopath with no moral compass, or an edgy kid who’s trying to act contrarian but just comes off as an asshole.
also using the “iT’s nAtUrE” argument in a discussion about something as objectively evil as GENOCIDE is wild af there’s no way you have a sufficiently developed prefrontal cortex to understand the implications of what you just said
@@Dashuyan88I'm vegan as well but I doubt Pol pot was into cannibalism. It was more like hunting or population control
My grandfather was murdered during Pol Pot's regime. It's interesting to see people talking about him; in my experience, most people only know about Hitler and Stalin.
Croissant
This is by far the best telling of the Cambodia genocide by a history youtuber. Most don't show pictures, or just blur them for monetization, massive respect to you for not only not caring about monetization, but also rejecting sponsors.
Thank you so much for your kind words! Yes, one of the issues I would say is that someone mentioned how as a result of my willingness to show real content like this uncensored, UA-cam may be suppressing its reach which really sucks since it means that much less people are able to see this video and thus learn more about this topic
history shouldnt be censored
Cambodia doesn't get talked about enough. A very underrated dictatorship
I didn't really know he died completely in peace without paying ANY of his crimes. I'm shocked. Come on man, what a horrible story.
It's a horrible story that must be told to not only honour the victims, but also make sure this doesn't happen again.
You wouldn't say that to his face buddy. You are nobody to judge what is a crime and what is not.
If you have problem with somebody, then do something about it physically, dont cry about morality
Billions of animals are killed for food every year how is that acceptable? Animals are just as capable of suffering as humans. You don't consider it crime? Are you ready to pay for that?
@@Dashuyan88 So do you think morality is relative and that we cannot judge any person for his actions because we don't know " what is a crime and what isn't"? It doesn't make sense.
@@danilousuga410yes thats what i said. And it makes perfect sense. If not then how is killing animals acceptable
Ans I also said that if you have any issues with anybody, do something about it physically, in real life. Talking about actions. Like pol pot did. Not words and judging based on fake morality. Morality is not real. Physically actions done in real time and space are real. And actions are just actions. There is no good action or bad actions.
@@danilousuga410what is so horrible about it man? Its nature. Organic life is based on suffering of other organic lives.
I damn well knew he was gonna say Pol Pot, and I was right… HOLY SHIT
i sat there for a sec and just before he was about to say it I went "I bet its Pol Pot" lol
So even when US knew of his atrocities, they stil supported him and his rule course they didn't like Vietnam. Pure evil!
Mao and Stalin: We are the worst and deadliest dictators in history!
Failing art student: Hold my beer
Failing engineering student: Hold my pot
I went to cambodia in june and it's truly devastating how much damage that man did. Highschools converted to jails and torture cells. Farms turns to killing fields. It actually made me cry.
Edit: After watching it, I realised the high school I went to was Tuol Sleng. (S-21). There was 2 men there who survived it by luck when Phnom Phen was liberated and I got to meet them and brought their book that each one of them sell. Its so sad. On the second floor on one of the buildings (building B or C), the wooden cells really hit hard. If you ever are in Veitnam or Thailand, stop over in Phnon Phen and look at it and maybe even go to Seim Reap and see Ankor Wat.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I've always wanted to visit as well to learn it firsthand.
I didn't even know Pol Pot was real intill like a year ago. His name is so goofy, like a fictional character.
It actually was a fake name he gave himself, so that tracks. "Stalin" was actually a fake name too.
@mollof7893 My sister thought the exact same thing too. When she found out that he was real and that he killed millions of people, she was understandably disgusted by his crimes against his countrymen.
great, more people should know this monster. As a Vietnamese there is something that I want to add (mostly around the Cambodian - Vietnamese war):
, The direct cause of the war between Khmer Rouge and Vietnam was a boder raid (sometime dubbed as an attempt of invasion) from Cambodia that kill thousand of Vietnamese civilians.
, While we steamrolled Pol Pot's force at open battles, the ragtag of these escaped to Thailand border and started a guerilla war. The newly pro-Vietnam Cambodian government led by Hun Sen, the Cambodian People's Party (the one that still alive to this day and just left the chair a few months ago to his son) was very weak so we had to stay for much longer until Hun Sen's government finally recognized as the legitimate government, and during the time we were hit hard by the international community, combined with economic trouble back home, making the 80s the most difficult time of modern Vietnam (at least post - reunion). The UN, being the UN and didn't do the work properly so off to the field we went.
,During the fighting in Thailand border, Vietnamese and Thai troops had several skirmish and led to several casualities. You might wonder why Thailand didn't attack the Khmer Rouge, given Pol Pot was a Communist? Think about this, which one was worse for Thailand? A ragtag of a dysfunctional Communist army, or the STRONGEST ARMY of Southeast Asia, which also both COMMUNIST and VIETNAMESE at the same time.
, US support for the Khmer Rouge was pale compared to China's. Nations condemned Vietnam mostly to protest against the Hun Sen's government (which at that time considered a puppet of Vietnam). In a bigger picture, US support to the Khmer Rouge, or rather anyone who oppose Hun Sen,to to show support to China (it's weird to think today, but back at 70s and 80s, China and US were good friends of each other). Technically speaking, the "recognized" government that most nation (including the US) considered legitimate was the CGDK, and the Khmer Rouge was just a part of it, that's why Cambodia is a kingdom today, because the royalism faction denounced the Khmer Rouge and decided to (uncomfortably) worked with Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party. Meanwhile China literally invaded Vietnam in 1979 and both nation had several fighting over the next 10 years (for example in 1988 China successfully invaded Gạt Ma island, which was under Vietnam control and China still holds it to this day)
, You should have talked about the denier of that monstrocity. From denying it ever exist, to blaming Vietnam instead or disown the atrocity of the crimes that Pol Pot committed.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I had to leave out a lot of details in order to not end up making the video an hour long, but I totally agree that Vietnam wrongly suffered for what happened.
But... Leopold II from Belgium did atrocities to Congo... Come on!!! You can't forget Leopold II
Yurp
And Gengis Khan. Leopold was a monster. But he was a king, not a dictator.
Yep, it's exactly who I thought it was. That guy was so crazy he would have destroyed Cambodia as a functioning country if Vietnam hadn't invaded first.
Honestly, even tho I don't know what happened after '79, I don't call that an vietnames Invasion but a liberation. It was an attack on foreign land but they caused way less dmg, suffering and despaire than pol pot
@@Erzhler It was a liberation. The Khmer Rouge were so crazy they attacked Vietnamese border villages and massacred the inhabitants, 3,100 people in one village and 600 elsewhere, then declared war on Vietnam and opened fire on Vietnamese positions in December 1978! Like, wtf?
The Khmer Rouge, a bunch of lunatics with AK-47s and not much else, was no match for the Vietnamese army. The invasion was over in two weeks, and so was the genocide. The Khmer Rouge killed everyone in the notorious Tuol Sleng prison before fleeing.
Conditions in Cambodia improved markedly after the invasion. Food aid ended the famine. The Khmer Rouge were relegated to the northwestern border jungle. The Vietnamese stayed for ten years. In typical bizarre Cold War politics fashion, the Khmer Rouge were recognized as the legitimate government of Cambodia until 1989! Vietnam only got aid from the Soviet Union. Despite international isolation, it continued to help Cambodia rebuild. It only got aid from the USSR.
When the Vietnamese left Cambodia, the government was centralized and strong enough to keep the Khmer Rouge at bay. The Khmer Rouge was finally dissolved in 1998 when Pol Pot died.
Today, of course, international opinion has swung back towards Vietnam and its attempts to help Cambodia despite all the obstacles. It was a true liberation, no doubt about it.
I saw the title of this video and literally said to myself "It's Pol Pot isn't it?"
The Khmer Rouge is one of the most heinous groups in history and anyone who knows anything about Cambodia should be aware of what they did
I appreciate the honesty about not accepting sponsors since they were all trash
WOW, thank you so much for your support sir! This means a lot and I really appreciate it :)
Knew it was Pol Pot. Just came back from Cambodia and the S-21 memorial. Truly horrific experience seeing how he treated the Cambodian people. What I find worse is that the Cambodian government still has former Khmer Rouge still work in the government despite what they did.
Francisco Solano López, the dictator of Paraguay started and lost the disastrous war of the Triple Alliance which led to the death of 2/3 of his citizens, the loss of most of his country’s territory and the destruction of Paraguay’s economy. The country did not recover economically or demographically for decades. Though not the deranged homicidal butcher that Pol Pot was, Lopez through his insane hubris and incompetence killed a far higher percentage of his own citizens.
I think the difference is that López did not intended to kill it's own population, not prosecuted them in masse as a scape goat, or erradicate certain class or ethnic group, rather the foreing armies did pursue a policy of mass killing and erradication in Paraguay.
@@emanuelfigueroa5657 And I don't think the guy deliberately try to wipe and erase his country's culture and history, only to replace it with one that is built from blood and brutality.
Pol Pot is the definition of "You don't need a death camp when your entire country is a death camp"
People forget about king of the Belgians Leopold which k*lled more than 10 million people in Congo and cut the legs and arms of many people but rarely someone mentions him i wonder why
Real, but Pol Pot was awful
Because he was white European and the victims were black
That's why people rarely mention him
@@free_palestine_8481 We can also look at it through class consciousness. Leopold II was a monarchist and a capitalist who made obscene amounts of money off the backs of the Congolese people he abused. You know, this time was during the Industrial Revolution and Belgian workers suffered as well under capitalism.
@@free_palestine_8481 Better: his victims were African. If being white European means you’re immune to criticism then please do blissfully explain to me why Hitler and Stalin are here.
Because Jews and Slavs are considered more important than Africans.@@dirtyfighters7751
I just started imma take a guess: pol pot?
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Many of the people killed weren't from Germany itself, but many from the Eastern populations, like Poland, Bielorussia, Ukraine, the Baltics, France, the Balkans, and really anywhere they could find "undesirables" when you factor that in, Hitler's kill percentage is much lower.
People living under a nation contribute to its population whether they’re wanted or not
@@ZuperZucker Yes, but 80,000,000 was just Germany, the Sudetenland, and Austria. The people killed is the same, but the people of the country is severely lower. To be more accuate, you'd have to count the populations of all the occupied territories, not just Germany. My point was those peoples WEREN'T included in the count.
Ironically Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge received US political and military support, up until 1982 the US sent them $4 million covertly, after 82 they increased the annual amount to $10 million to total of around $215 million.
that is the u. s. a. we fought the wrong enemy in ww1 and 2. we were in bed with the Zionist commies. look what they did to the southern sovereign nation, invade, starved the women and children, stole whatever they could, raped the women. this was over greed because they did not want to lose there 80 percent tariffs. they destroyed the constitutional republic, brought in a federalist empire of control , taxation, and debt. and usury.
another usa classic
They first gave it to them when Vietnam invaded them, not when Pol Pot came into power
@@andydufresnefromshawshank5866yeah “invaded “
"Hey you! Make more food!"
"Ah, yes so I'll have more to eat!"
"No."
Croissant. I lived in Cambodia for 6years teaching English. In my first year I grew really frustrated with all the students with poor eye sight needing to sit close to the board. My TA explained to me that their families wouldn’t get the kids glasses because of family members had been murdered for having glasses. I also remember this elderly couple who would smile and wave to me everyday as I walked from work and I commented to another teacher that it amazed me when I thought of these friendly people older people and the hell they went through. He said it was amazing and the other thing to consider is that we have no idea as to which side they were on. I knew about the killing fields and S-21 when I was there. I had visited the killing fields and S-21 was about 6blocks from where I lived.
One small correction. He didn't "die peacefully in his sleep". He was conveniently pronounced dead by his supporters the day he was announced as a wanted criminal of the international court. They then cremated him immediately afterwards so no autopsy could be performed.
Strange. Very strange....
Huh, at least they marked him off. Better then actually going out peacefully.
As a pseudo Cambodian whose life was affected by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime. I am flattered that this horrible genocide is being recognized in this video done by a Westerner. I went to Cambodia in 2019 for the first time and twice in 2023. I had a chance to visit S-21 and it was educational and extremely sad. It is a beautiful country and their people are wonderful.
The Dead Kennedys did a song called Holiday in Cambodia from the early 80’s
Difference is that Hitler didn't kill his own people )excluding German Jews of course), unlike Mao and Stalin. People always forget that about the big 3.
And commies and disabled people and gay people and socialists and religious figures and it goes on
Hitler killed his own people by starting a stupid war, people always forget that about the big 3
Your Kd calculation is flawed, most of the people funny mustache man killed was not the population he ruled. Majority of those deaths are obviously after 1941 and in occupied territories. With same logic Hirohito could get better kd with 50+ million deaths with 125 million ruling population majority of those deaths being in china and indonesia
The problem with the proportion lf Death tolls/ country's population is that Stalin and Hitler's numbers weren't just from their Countries, but also from the ones they conquered and Subdued, so it's not like they did 17-21% of their own country.
That puts in perspective how much bloodlier he was than Stalin and Hitler to his people. He not only beat them in absolute Numbers, but also in the proportion.
Did you ever consider duration of rule in your equation? Per year - Pol pot 8%, Hitler 1.5%, Idi Amin .5%, Stalin .4%, Mao .3%. Make you wander if there are any other Dictators that had violent but short rules like Pol Pot that may be higher on the list but are forgotten.
I did consider that, but didn't want to make things too complicated!
You know what disturbing about this whole thing? Khmer Rouge is actually still alive today under a rebranded "democratic" government.
The top dog like Hunsen, former Khmer Rouge member who betrayed the party and joined Vietnam when they invade Cambodia, became a Prime Minister of Cambodia for 40 years using rigged election.
Khmer Rouge officers became Generals and Admiral of Cambodian Army, Navy and Air Force.
The underling who used to foresee the execution at the killing fields is the local administrator of the government.
The Khmer Rouge were never purge or punish. Far from it, their life became much better and successful thanks to the corrupted system under current regimes and Chinese leadership.
Before watching, my guess is Pol Pot
Err, that went well - well not for Cambodia, but yay for me..... Croissant
Kissinger and Pol Pot are probably having a nice talk in hell.
I'm guessing it's Pol Pot. He killed around 2 million, which isn't a lot compared to Stalin, Mao, nor Hitler, but that was a quarter of Cambodia.
Edit: I was correct. Even though I did know what he did, it was utterly horrifying and disturbing hearing what he did. God bless those who have died under his rule, the families that lost their loved ones, those who survived, and Cambodia as a country. It's a spit in the face of humanity that he wasn't held accountable for his crimes.
Hopefully it will help you to know that three of the Khmer Rouge leaders were convicted, including "Comrade Dutch" from the video
Winston Churchill killed more people.He caused the Bengal Famine and killed 3 Million people
Guessing before watch, pol pot
congrats, you win
Hitler did not kill 21% of his own population the way Stalin or Mao killed theirs. Hitler sent his own people out to a war. That's not 'killing.' The people he exterminated were also not *his* people. So this number makes very little sense.
Inb4 some edgy 14 year old from a suburban middle class family hops in here, to espouse how Stalin/Mao did nothing wrong.
If we go by this logic, Pol Pot still isn't #1, or even in the top 5. 40% of East Timor's population was murdered during the Indonesian occupation, half of the Congolese population was killed during the Free State era, 80% of Namibia's native population was killed in the Herero and Namaqua genocide, the Mutunga and Tama tribes killed 93% of the Moriori people when they invaded the Chatham Islands, George Arthur killed nearly all full-blooded Tasmanian Aborigines, and 96% of indigenous Caribbeans were killed under King Ferdinand, with the Lucayans being wiped out completely.
The percentages used in the video also only really work if you look at nations as a whole, and not at the targeted groups. Hitler and Stalin were nearly successful at completely killing off the Roma and Circassians respectively, still putting them above Pol Pot.
This is legit terrifying, they should be talked atleast as much as pol pot and leopold
Yes, I'm talking about nations as a whole, because looking at targeted groups starts to get even more arbitrary. There have been entire villages, ethnic groups, and tribes that have been fully wiped out in history, but a town of 1000 being all killed isn't really helpful to compare and say that the leader of the entire country was therefore the deadliest.
Yeah
can you tell me more about mutunga and tama tribe?
truly sickening. this tragedy must be taught to everyone, just like the crimes of hitler, stalin and mao
All three of whom just happened to have been inspired and bankrolled by *ZIONI$TS*!
It's incredible how people tend to forget Pol Pot's regime. Most probably because it was not a major power or invaded by USA.
@@ElonNepoBabyAnd Mao's China as well!
It was bombed by the USA, which lead to the rising support of communism. Also, the USA was officially against the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian Civil war, hence the bombing, although this could be considered as not being invaded by the USA, as the Khmer Rouge didn't have full support at the time of the bombing.
Hitler didnt really have 21% kill rate because the kill count counts in every country he ever ruled over so you have to include in population of Poland, France, Yugoslavia etc.
*Hitler killed 5000000% of Earths entire population and Trump is LiTeRaLLy Hitler so Trump killed 50000000% of Earth’s population too! Chuds destroyed!*
But no in all seriousness, you can do whatever statism floats your boat to put the Nazi’s in whatever rank you want on the leaderboards. They were literally socialists lol, so that’s not a win for modern leftists. Just a self-own.
@@charlesbrown4483 Are you schizophrenic?
@@rockstar-madejust looking at this guys profile pic tells me he is beyond schizophrenic
actually most of hitler's kills were not on his own people, but from the nations he invaded, so the calculation of kills/populations doesnt really work for his case.
if really we have to make one for him, we will have to include the population of the occupied parts of his invading reich which will include all of france, belgium, netherlands, former yugoslavia, norway, denmark, poland, czechia, soviet ukarine, soviet belrus, and more.
get off the hitler crap you indoctrinated F!!!. bolsheviks are the evil they murdered and butchered over 20 million European christain's. the bolsheviks were 98 percent jews. not hebrew get that straight. communism was and still is the threat look at the world today. people are so easily indoctrinated in lies and believe in a lie you people will be the fist to take the mark of the beast
Why did a man like this get to live until 73 years old? Where’s the justice? Sickening
"Fun" fact: Pol Pot was founded by USA as a desperate response to the disastrous results of Vietnam war
Source?
And China, you forget Kissinger is a kiss up to China?
Pol Pot?
Pol Pot.
Fuckin score!
The rate for Hitler is a bit misleading. You took the pre-war population of Germany but most of the people murdered by the Nazis were from conquered territories across Europe.
Nevermind that the numbers for Stalin and Mao are a bit controversial. They include lots of famine-related deaths, which weren't deliberate killings by the regime but a byproduct of disastrous policies. Still horrible, but on a different level than putting people in camps.
I bet those numbers are BS even corrected for natural famine deaths. Can they give any detail with credible sources? No
By the way, famine was caused by natural problems first, and only strengthened with stupid and late decisions of government
Props for being literally the only comment to also point to the outrageously high numbers for everyone else along with the counting mistake for Germany
If you count by ratio.
As a South East Asian, lemme guess Pol Pot?
Yup, now after I finished, lemme go eat a croissant at the commune field.
Yup. Now I'll go back to the commune field now.
Correct!
😂
Stalin is Georgian, not Russian
Yeah, but Most Americans just ignore that fact.
@@alexcovey1200 For Americans, all Eastern Europeans look the same
@@mafuirhelli5914UNLEESS UR POLISH
Yes I know, but it would've sounded weird to most people if I called him Georgian Mustache Man, since almost everyone thinks/knows of him as a Russian leader.
@@mafuirhelli5914 I don't see what that has to do with the fact stalin was an american.
Instantly knew it was pol pot lmao
This man really decided to use 1984 as a blueprint.
I actually guessed the video would be about Pol Pot despite knowing nothing about the man, except his name and that he was a dictator. Now that I do know though, I find it morbidly fascinating just how evil people can be.
When I saw the title I immediately thought "Pol Pot." I remember reading a book in high school English called "first they killed my father." Insane title to a book that gets even crazier as you read it.
Can we acknowledge that Vietnam is chad level material? They fought both the French and the United States just to unite the country and be independent, then fight china, and then liberate Cambodia from a brutal communist government while they too were communist. You have to seriously respect them.
how brutal you gotta be that another communist country gotta step in to sotp you
Both Pol Pot and Henry Kissinger are now enjoying hell already due to their crimes they'd committed. 🤑
so true lol
Albert bourla is still alive
I heard about this Pol Pot guy, but this is the first time actually finding out what he did
Jesus Christ everything feels like something straight from Hoi4 TNO mod
The most mind boggling part about these stories is how the fuck they could establish such a large chain of command, and get enough people to participate in this bullshit.
ah, if you could only see it, are you bri'sh or murican?
so uhh, *america* is one of your answer
I am shocked, what a horrible creature….I knew of him, but nothing about him…a real monster.
As soon as you said death to population ratio, I knew it was Pol Pot.
Croissant. It's insane how people like Noam Chomsky and Malcolm Caldwell denied Cambodian genocide or downplayed their atrocities.
Le intellectuals when faced with reality "Lol no. 🤪"
Thanks for watching, and yes it's insane!
And you could see some people on the internet denying Cambodian genocide to this day
Chomsky is smarter than that. Like damn did you throw away your brain Mr Chomsky?
I knew it was Pol Pot. I remember how much of a monster he actually was and how it had become kind of a big meme, way back in the mid-2000s. The Zoomers won't remember any of this.
I knew it was Pol Pot
Leaving my guess here: since it's not Hitler, Stalin, or Mao, I'll guess Pol Pot of Cambodia.
Edit: Hey, I got it right! I only knew about him because I took AP world history though.
Same. It is easy.
Yeah, i knew because i fucking hate communism.
Nice nice. I learned about him bc my ex-soviet hungarian professor taught us about it when she was telling us about her life on the first day of class. The tankies got smeared on by her as well
Fun Fact: you can't spell "croissant" without "CIA"... which is why I'm reporting this channel to the Khmer Rouge for counterrevolutionary activity
Thank You for bringing this gruesome Topic to our Attention. It may be hard to watch but we need to see it anyway so that History can’t repeat itself.
WOW thank you so much for your incredible generosity good sir. This really helps me a lot with continuing to make these kinds of videos in the future. I'm super glad to hear you appreciate the attention to this topic this video is providing, so history doesn't repeat itself. Thank you again for your support!
I do have a remark about the ranking of deadliest dictators in the beginning. The people who died due to the extermination programs (I use that term because it is the shoah + the extermination of soviet pow's, travellers, gays, the mentally handicapped and sadly many more groups) were not all from Nazi-Germany. They came from all over Europe and Russia. Why did you compare the 17 million deaths to the population of Nazi-Germany while most of these people were not inhabitants of that country? Also Hitler was responsible for ww2 which cost 3 percent of the global population their lives. When you want to compare percentages look at for example the Polish jews. Hitler killed roughly 90% of them.
Also by the logic you used if a dictator would rise in for example Monaco killing 50 percent of the population he or she would be the deadliest dictator in history while the Nazi's would kill roughly that many people in 2 days at the deadliest 3 month period of the shoah in 1942.. something to think about...
My guess before watching is pol pot
I knew it
"Isnt who you think" immediately leads me to think polpot
Your logic is incorrect. Hitler didnt murder only german people. You should count the population depending on the territory they occupied.
Also, you should take into take the time they were doing it.
I just have to say, don't get discouraged if the view count seems low compared to the first video. A lot of great creators get a big hit and start expecting every video to be like that, and when it isn't, they quit. This channel deserves to succeed, so don't give up!
Edit: Croissant
Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment! Yes, I was definitely a little disappointed to see the performance of this video but I also for sure wasn't expecting it to be nearly as much as my first one. I'm hoping in enough time, the algorithm can pick this one up as well and show it to more people! I'll try my best not to give up anytime soon, but I also have rent to pay so there's that reality hitting haha