The fantasy: the Khmer Rouge were courageous revolutionary freedom fighters!
The reality: the Khmer Rouge were a lot of murderous, bloodthirsty thugs and *unprintable*s whose Communist tyranny slaughtered nearly 2 million people in Cambodia.
The BBC reports that Gunnar Bergstrom, a former fan of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot, has finally woken up to the reality and gone public with it. How much are you willing to wager that Mr. Bergstrom, in his Rouge-happy days, was a pie-eyed idealistic young leftist with a penchant for self-deception, denial of the truth, "Communist chic," and no conception of objective reality?
Well, I suppose I should give Mr. Bergstrom credit for being able to realize and admit his error in judgment. The world has one fewer "useful idiot."
One more note: Mr. Bergstrom is Swedish. Don't you find it rather interesting that so often Communist-fans come from comfortable, safe, free countries? How many Communist-fans do you find who live or have lived in Communist hellhole nations?
I cannot tell you how much I hate Communism. I hate it WITH FIRE.
4 comments:
Well said !!!
And his repentance is purely coincidental to the release of a book he has written. Capitalist motivations?
If Bergstrom's going public to help sell his books, I don't care. People need to hear that Cambodian Communism was butchery and that it was no romantic heroism.
I wasn't trying to excuse his behaviour particularly when he had broken with the Kampuchea-Swedish Friendship Society decades ago but only now talks about how bad it was for the Cambodians. It also should be noted that for years he attacked in print any criticism of the Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese for at least slowing down the pace of the murders.
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