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Chairman Mao (left) with the genocidal Khmer Rouge leaders Pol Pot (center) and Ieng Sary, Beijing, China, 1975 (lemmy.world)
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[–] cabbage@piefed.social 4 points 1 year ago

At least in Norway, Marxist Leninist publicly supported Pol Pot well into the 70s. I would bet on #2, with an added element of whataboutism taking about America's wars.