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“The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.” quote by Pol Pot — Download Open image

“The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.”

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No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.

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