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[[File:Polpot_villains_wiki.jpg|thumb]] Pol Pot was | [[File:Polpot_villains_wiki.jpg|thumb]] Pol Pot (real name: Saloth Sar) was the dictator of Cambodia (which he called Kampuchia) from 1975 to 1979, known for his large scale war crimes against his own country and its neighbors. He was an extreme Communist and probably the worst example of all time. After consolidating his power, he utterly ruined his country economically and socially to the point of which it is still recovering today. Though Hitler, Stalin, and Mao killed a lot more people than Pol Pot, he is sometimes considered worse because, in less than four full years, he brought about the deaths of a quarter of his country's population (approx. 2 million victims) without a war and in a particularly gruesome manner. He died in 1998, either by suicide or poisoning. | ||
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Pol Pot (real name: Saloth Sar) was the dictator of Cambodia (which he called Kampuchia) from 1975 to 1979, known for his large scale war crimes against his own country and its neighbors. He was an extreme Communist and probably the worst example of all time. After consolidating his power, he utterly ruined his country economically and socially to the point of which it is still recovering today. Though Hitler, Stalin, and Mao killed a lot more people than Pol Pot, he is sometimes considered worse because, in less than four full years, he brought about the deaths of a quarter of his country's population (approx. 2 million victims) without a war and in a particularly gruesome manner. He died in 1998, either by suicide or poisoning.