User blog:Tybaltcapulet/26th of July Movement vs. Khmer Rouge

The Red Army, the Soviet Union's devoted front line troops who defended the virtues of Communism

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The Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot's fanatical guerillas who slaughtered millions in Cambodia

WHO IS DEADLIEST!

Khmer Rouge
===The Khmer Rouge  were a band of communist inspired Cambodian rebels, with nationalist ideals, that were formed in the late 1960's by Communist revolutionaries Saloth S ar (later  Pol Pot ), Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan and were most r emembered for their social engineering, which resulted in genocide. The group was exiled in the reign of Cambodian monarch, Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1968 and remained relatively unknown until the eve of the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War,  Viet Cong  forces established bases inside neutral Cambodia. After the Tet Offensive, the President of the United States, Richard Nixon, ordered a top secret bombing raid called Operation Menu. The bombing raids were to destroy Vietnamese bases on Cambodia’s eastern border with Vietnam. Unfortunately, the bombing raids hit Cambodian villages on the border as well; this was what the Khmer Rouge used to bring the people on their side. In 1970, the left wing monarch, Sihanouk, was ousted by a military led coup by General Lon Nol, who was pro-US. Under Lon Nol, the US airstrikes ​​​​​​​ ramped up to attempt to destroy the Khmer Rouge bases. That same year, the Khmer Rouge launched a civil war against the Nol regime. === After five years of civil war, the Khmer Rouge won and started to purge the country of those classed as enemies. They started by exterminating the sympathisers of the previous regime and non-Khmer people, including Vietnamese and half-Khmer peoples, before attempting to bring Cambodia back to the days of the Khmer Empire by turning it into an agrarian communist country. They believed that the only way to restore Cambodia to its medieval splendour was to put everyone to work in the fields farming rice.

Civilians' lives were viewed as expendable. It was this mindset which was what caused the deaths of an estimated 2.2 million people; most of which were done in high schools turned interrogation centres. Fortunately, they were taken out of power in 1979 by the Vietnamese, who were tired of the now frequent Cambodian raids across the border. However, groups of Khmer Rouge still existed until 1998, when the leadership collapsed. Since then, Cambodia has started to recover. Pol Pot died on April 15th, 1998, and surviving Khmer Rouge leaders have been or will be put on trial.

The Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, or Red Army for short, was the paramilitary force that fought for communist control of the Russian Empire. From its early beginnings in the Russian Civil War, the group evolved into the standard fighting force of the Soviet Union.

The red symbolizes the blood shed by workers who fought against capitalism. Under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin and his associates, they were able to defeat the White Movement, Russian Provisional Government, and other Allied forces and preserve the communist state.

The low point in the early ages of the Red Army was during their service in World War I against the Central Powers. Due to the poor economy and industry, many soldiers would go without rifles and used knives, pistols, axes, or even their own bare hands. Vladimir Lenin immediately withdrew troops and turned into a neutral nation.

However, during World War II the Soviet Union was again pitted against their rival, Germany. Now with a stabilized economy and training from stronger generals and commissars, the force evolved into an effective fighting force that helped bring the end to Nazi tyranny.

During the Cold War, the Red Army became a standing army, policing Soviet satellites. Once the Soviet Union fell in 1991, so did the Red Army which was replaced by Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.