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A radical communist regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.

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The Khmer Rouge tried to make Cambodian society a classless, entirely agrarian society. In that society, all people work collectively for the common good.

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Pol Pot (1925-1998), was the leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from 1963 to 1979.

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Occurred from 1975 to 1979, Cambodian genocide claimed over 2 million peoples' lives through execution, forced labor, and starvation. Led directly by Pol Pot, it aimed to transform Cambodia into an agrarian socialist state, and execute those opposition force including capitalism and supporters of Vietnam.

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To realize that Top-down utopia, Khmer Rouge abolished private property and kept trying to eliminate perceived enemies. And that's the very reason of its failure: the former one caused the economic collapse, and the other caused the loss of public support.

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In 1979, Vietnam invaded Cambodia, ended the Cambodian genocide, which marked the destruction of Khmer Rouge.