Thread: "Russophobia" and "Russophilia" :)

Over a million people were killed during the Rwandan Genocide and our country and the UN did nothing to stop it.

Recently on TV was a documentary (Russian probably) about this nice-looking man:
Pol Pot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I knew that millions were killed, but was not aware about any details, such as fresh idea to shoot school teachers etc. Very gloomy film.
In that case, the fiend too was left to his own devices.
And today, very often some horrible news come from Nigeria, but it doesn't look like anybody cares.

Originally Posted by maxmixiv

Recently on TV was a documentary (Russian probably) about this nice-looking man:
Pol Pot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I knew that millions were killed, but was not aware about any details, such as fresh idea to shoot school teachers etc. Very gloomy film.
In that case, the fiend too was left to his own devices.
And today, very often some horrible news come from Nigeria, but it doesn't look like anybody cares.

Well it was during the Cold War. It was like a creepy status quo back then. Nobody could officially intervene outside "his" own area, unless it was to stop a country from switching sides. Like the USSR did with Czechoslovakia, and the USA did with Vietnam and others.

Things like Libya and Syria couldn't have happened.

So Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, being a communist revolutionaries (obviously with a screw loose....) must have had the protection of either the USSR or China.

Similarly creepy and scary stuff happened on areas controlled by right wing military dictatorships supported by the USA, in South America, Southern Europe, East Asia etc.

Smaller countries were like pawns on the chessboard for the superpowers back then......

EDIT: Correction: Apparently the USSR was innocent. According to Wiki, Khmer Rouge was supported by "The West and China"?!