Life Under Evil Communist Regimes 

The fact that Cambodia, a communist country, was invaded by another communist country really shows how evil and insane the Khmer Rouge was.

Communists when communism fails for the 47th time in a country: "This isn't real communism."

My grandparents survived the Khmer Rouge. They told me a lot about their lives under the regime. It was a terrible and horrific experience. My grandpa was a high school teacher, he forced himself to burn and buried all his achievements to avoid getting "educated". He told me "It's hard to get 1 handful of rice. You are lucky. So don't be picky." I never waste a single grain of rice. Edit: I want to share my other grandparent's story (my mom's side). My grandpa was a District Governor. Lucky for him, he some how managed to survive and later become a Major General. My mom told me both of my grandparents survive the regime because they pretend to be normal farmers. Especially, my grandpa. He knew the intentions of the Khmer Rouge. He knew that only pretending to be "stupid" is the way to survive. And he did just that. Just before the day of liberation, he joined the other liberation force not the Vietnamese. Due to his heroic actions and my grandma's help. My grandpa was promoted to Major General and his task is to eliminate the remaining Khmer Rouge guerilla forces along Khmer-Thai border. He didn't see them as enemies but victims instead. Instead of holding a gun he carries a bag full of medical supplies and help the wounded Khmer Rouge soldiers. (I met one of his comrades.) He wasn't lying. My grandpa and my grandma lived years after the war ended. And yeah this is it. They died in peace. They are very happy to see our country in peace. I still remember the words my mom told be "Don't look with your eyes. Look with your hands. War never forgive a lazy person." I'm not very good at English. If there's a mistake, be sure to let me know. I'm happy to fix! THANK YOU FOR READING! ❤️

Back in the late 90's I worked with a man who lived through the Cambodian regime. He was a very reserved man and he very rarely talked about his time there but he did tell us once that when he was 18 his father was arrested on the suspicion of knowing how to read. Some soldiers came to the house and told the family that he had attempted to escape and was executed with a rifle. When the family went to collect the remains at the site of the execution, he quickly realized they hadn't used a rifle, they had used a grenade launcher. He had to multitask between gathering the remains himself and keeping his mother back so she couldn't see. The guy lived on nicotine and only slept two hours per night.

The tankies are not gonna like this one

For an evil dictator who starved and tortured millions of his own people, “Pol Pot” isn’t a particularly intimidating name.

Can't wait for people to notice Reznov, Mason and Sergei in the Vorkuta part

I cant imagine surviving the Vietnam war only to invade Cambodia to see even worse horrors

"Remember, comrades. Utopia is just over one more mountain of skulls." --Average college student, three or four mountains of skulls ago.

It's truly insane how anyone can support such a regime

My grand mother is from Budapest hungry and she left in 1956 because a tank shot threw her window

Putting the word "evil" next to communism is just saying the same thing twice

The title is gonna piss off some university students...

Vietnamese commies being shocked must say a lot about the Khmer Rouge.

Tankies when you show literally any other countries crimes: 😡 Tankies when you show crimes of their ideology: 🤓

My former neighbor lost all of her family to the khmer rouge. She eventually had kids.

In the early 80s, when I was a kid, there were some Cambodian refugees in my neighborhood. I didn’t know anything about politics or Cambodia at that time. I do remember eating with them. They were extremely protective of their food. The hovered over their bowls.

"But this wasn't REAL communism." "Real communism hasn't been tried yet."

I feel like I am losing my mind when people tell me communism isn't horrible.

Tankies: Capitalists will never exploit your labor again! Farmers: Yeah! So we can own our own land? Tankies: No Farmers: We can sell our produce at our own prices? Tankies: No Farmers: We can eat some of the produce we make? Tankies: No Farmers: Can we stop farming and leave? Tankies: NO! I SAID CAPITALISTS WILL NEVER EXPLOIT YOUR LABOR AGAIN!

I honestly came into this thinking: "Haha cope and seethe commies!" Now, fifty-odd-some minutes in, I'm just exhausted and depressed that this all happened and people still think this isn't objectively evil.

It's rather ironic i've learned more history from channels like Simple History, Yarnhub and others than i did to school. Out of all Communist regimes the one of Khmer Rouge was the absolute worst of all and that says something that even the Vietnamese were understandably horrified.

Never met someone who came from a communist country and liked it. Germany, Poland, Russia, Venezuela, and China, all came to the US. Most being teachers or people i work with, each either told me they flat out didnt like it or had horror stories. I have several grievances against the current system, but Communism will make everyone miss the old regime as the good ole days. Never take your freedoms for granted.

In many former Eastern Bloc countries it's strictly forbidden to establish political parties referring to communism in their programms, as well as fascism and nazism. It's quite often done at constitutional level and there are many good reasons to do so.

The fact that they put Reznov in the gulag is top tier genius

0:06 “Life Under the Khmer Rouge” 11:39 “The Vorkuta Gulag” 17:49 “Kim Jong-il vs the Starving Masses of North Korea” 27:34 “The Great Leap Forward” 35:46 “The Real-Life Battle Royale” 43:58 “The KGB” 53:11 “Hungarian Uprising” 55:45 “Day in the Life of Stalin” 1:03:52 “The Kim Dynasty” 1:11:45 “The Truth of Holodomor” 1:20:07 “Perestroika & Glasnost”

"real socialism hasn't been tried yet." ~some college kid somewhere~

*"The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"*

It functions as intended, just not as advertised.

I love how the tankies defense for communism is "but what about capitalism"😅

To all unironic tankies here: I sincerely hope there will be a chance to build a real communism simulator (unlike in your bs fantasies) where for once you can experience it for real. With worst wishes, A guy from post-communist nation.

My great-grandmother sacrificed her life for my uncle and grandfather during the Great Leap Forward. My great grandfather fled the country because of his money, influence over locals, and avoiding execution. My great-grandmother was thinking of selling my uncle for food but my grandfather refused. My great grandmother starved, sacrificing her food to my uncle and grandfather. Thank you for helping expose the crimes of the Chinese Commies.

I remember one person stated capitalism caused the great depression, but they forgot that communism resulted in the most horrifying genocides in all of human history

This could have been so helpful for one of my college assignments that happened month ago.

Avoid Commies at all Cost.

When a collage student proceeds to respond with "Real communism hasn't been tried yet". Then we get to spam the clown emoji.

Evil is just redundant here.

redditors wont be happy you called their favorite people evil.

This should be streaming in every single US University.

"That wasn't _real_ Communism." Calling it right now, that's what we're gonna see.

Thank you for doing this vid. Many folks are ignorant to the horrors of that system.

My wife is from Ukraine and she grew up during the closing years of the Soviet Union. She told me that she had nothing but disgust for the Bolsheviks. Particularly holdemor, the OMOH opening fire on unarmed civilians wanting independence. They tried to eliminate her language. Her culture and what’s even worse is Russia is now trying to do the same. She hates Russia to no end, and frankly don’t blame her. Modern day Russia is terrible, but communism under the Soviets was worse. No matter what. Communism is a terrible ideology.

Putting evil in front of communism seems redundant.

As a Polish man who's family was victimised by communists and been hearing the communist for years at the university and streets of UK, thank you for that video. I hope people will know more.

Both my parents are from the USSR. My mom and grandparents would tell me stories about how they used to live and man aw man it sucked, hard. Thank God I was born 11 years after the USSR collapsed and I left my native country at 4 years old. I'm very thankful for not living in the hellhole called Ruzzia.

"Evil Communist" is like saying wet water

i dont see the dislikes but i can feel it

My uncle was deployed to Korea. In the middle of his unit engaging the enemy, one of the guys in his group pulled a pin on a grenade, and his idea of throwing was to let it roll back in his hand and past his fingers so it landed in the foxhole with the rest of the men. My uncle saw this and ordered everyone out of the foxhole, pushing the last guy out, meaning he was the one that took the brunt of the blast. Luckily he lived, although he had a back full of shrapnel, as well as missing most of his left foot. But, after that incident, he was discharged and got to recuperate stateside, so I guess that was something.

"iT wAsn'T _rEaL_ cOmmUniSm!!11!" "b-b-but capitalism!1!11" "prOpagAnda!11!" what are some other generic 'arguments' from the useful idiots?

"It had been hoped that by stealing everyone's property, fruits of their labor and forcibly making them work on communal (state owned) land in colonies of total strangers that production and efficiency would increase" Stupider words have never been said.

The Khmer rouge story is almost an exact copy of my mothers experience. For all you westerners, it's time to wake up from the illusion of "that wasnt real communism"

And in The united States of America ,gen Z college kids cheer and loudly proclaim how Awesome communism is

Saying "evil" and "communist" in the same phrase is like saying "wet water".

There are 2 tourist attraction locations in cambodia thats related to the whole khmer rogue thing. 1 S21 can be visited some stuff are still left there for viewing. 2 a ''museum'' is built to display the skeletons of the dead from that era expect to step on random human bone that isnt in display.

“B-But Comm’uwu’nism had never been tried before” -Tankie

I talked to someone who grew up in east berlin. They talked about the political indoctrination, the lack of food variety, and how it generally just sucked. Then they talked about how much better life got when the berlin wall fell. Don't take it from me, take it from someone who actually lived under communism. It sucked.

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As an american I think it is important to pay attention and see what our near future is going to look like. Especially since the american public has decided to accept and embrace our move to communism

"2 million Cambodian soldiers in exchange for 50 million Vietnamese people" the head of the Pol Pot regime once said. Vietnamese soldiers sacrificed their lives to free the Cambodian people from Pol Pot's rule, but the Cambodian people later did not appreciate what we gave them. They went on social networks and cursed the Vietnamese people, the people who liberated them. I'm sorry that my uncle had to sacrifice himself for ungrateful Cambodians. I know not all Cambodians are like that, but now it has become a big problem in the awareness of the next generation of Cambodians

"Evil Communist" seems redundant.

"But that wasn't true Communism." A socialist's biased argument

"But but but... That wasn't REAL communism. Real communism is the fictional utopia vision I have in my head."

“Evil communist” is redundant.

you forgot to mentioned the soviets prewar and war crimes in whole eastern, central, south and west europe. They also carried out ethnic cleansing

And imagine all those woke people who admire this ideoligy today.

Thank you for the video, these atrocities have to be remembered.

both my parents lived under the sovier union, you legit couldnt find braws for teens, my mom got her first braw smuggled from romania

"Communism is without a doubt the most heinous personification of evil mankind has ever confronted"

The Khmer was literally just insane

The fact that this repulsive ideology still won't go away or even show a shred of humility after everything that's happened is just astonishing

Oh boy, prepare for Reddit and the Breadtubers to soon come here and go "it wasn't real communism xd".

12:19 - Sergei: The Monster of Magadan 12:47 - Viktor Reznov Nice subtle homages to Call of Duty

I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's "On the Soviet abomination of humanity": that really opens your mind

My late grand father from my mother's side joined the CCP when he was 14 and was in the army during ww2,civil war and korean war as a field medic. He became a heart surgeon after the war and was always looked after by the party. When he visited me in Canada he told me Canada is more communist then China in its social welfare. I think to this day i still think socialism is a good concept just impossible to realize in real life.

The tankies won't like this one.

For all the Western "trendies" who champion communism... this is the reality of it. We need more superb videos like this to show what it was like for people who lived under the most evil of all political doctrines. Every story is important. Every young person in the West needs educating on the horrors and dangers of communism.

As a Godzilla fan, hearing the GOAT og 1954 roar at 25:01 is AWESOME great vid as well btw

Imagine if fascists kept saying "It wasn't real nazism".

I like how they Added Reznov to the Vorkuta scene's

Watched two of those regimes while patrolling the Grenz with the 1/1 CAV and 11th ACR.

And there are seriously people here that think America should be Communist…

Wow the bo1 reference took me back

And now we wait for the tankies

keep up the good work!

If communism is such a utopia. Then I would rather suffer in "exploitive" capitalism. Got my own house, never starved, never was harassed by the "State", and got to vote for the leaders in that government of America. I do feel very concerned about those statements made by Klaus Schwab of the WEF.

every kid in the USA needs to watch this. Even normally at work in a free society people rat each other out for little things. Jjust think what wound happen

Why communism sucks, extended cut.

I thought the thumbnail was McDonalds!

College kids in America be like "But this isn't REAL socialism. This is all fake news by conservatives. I studied liberal arts for one semester and I am an expert in political science"

More collage kids need to watch this

Been randomly searching up leaders who were in power for countries like these advocating the ideology of Communism and coincidentally see that you uploaded this collection just recently.

Communism is the very definition of failure Biggest problem with people who wants communism, is that they forget what communism does and gives; and this is what it will bring. Communism has caused nothing but pain and suffering for the entire world. Everywhere communism is implanted; the citizens of that nation suffer. All for the power of one tyrant. Many praise communism, but that’s because they don’t truly understand the price it has. The price they will make their people pay. - Communism is a form of religion as they communist parties practically makes the people worship them and the ideology (look at early Soviet Union with Stalin, and look at China with Mao and the current dictator of China).

University undergrads are going to hate this one

24:03 Party music goes hard. Supreme leader had some good taste

Excellent content.

"bUt iT wAsn'T _rEaL_ cOmMuniSm!!1!11!"

I would like to know how you interrogate a baby for info

I met à veitnam vêt in Walmart the other day and I said thank you for your service and he also said he would fight agian if he could if that anit decation I don’t know what is

With all the talk of communism in the U.S. now makes me wonder if Russia was attempting to play the long game over decades

“There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.” - Oswald Spengler.