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title: "In absolute terms, Pol Pot was a piker compared to Stalin and Mao,…"
date: 2017-04-16
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# In absolute terms, Pol Pot was a piker compared to Stalin and Mao,…

*April 16, 2017 · Facebook*

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[http://www.economist.com/node/3352737](http://www.economist.com/node/3352737){target="_blank"}
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In absolute terms, Pol Pot was a piker compared to Stalin and Mao, but on a percentage basis, he and the Khmer Rouge were no slouches.\
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\"He ran the country for less than four years, yet between April 1975 and January 1979 Pol Pot killed up to a fifth---some think a quarter---of the 7m Cambodian people to whom he said he was bringing a new and better life\...\"
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