The Vietnamese troops made their way into Cambodia and captured Phnom Penh, and Cambodia now lays under the newly established Vietnamese regime. The economy started to fall under Pol Pot and according to World Without Genocide, “...all professionals, engineers, technicians and planners who could potentially reorganize Cambodia had been killed in the genocide “ (1). The Khmer Rouge influence began to decrease and in addition to who could’ve potentially reorganized Cambodia, the World Without Genocide claims that, “In 1997, Pol Pot himself was arrested by Khmer Rouge members; a ‘mock’ trial was staged and Pol Pot was found guilty” (1). He then died of natural causes in 1998. This genocide teaches students that back then, life wasn’t as easy as it seemed and there are evil people in the world despite how they may look on the outside.
Collectivization was also set up to help destroy the wealthy farmers, known as Kulaks (Doc4.). Kulaks needed to be eliminated because they only cared about themselves and not for the state. Stalin had a solution for this, simply take away all of their food and starve them to death. This was known as the great purge. While the drive for collectivized agriculture was a wide going trend, kulaks needed to be destroyed.
This event led to labor unrest, peasant insurrections, student demonstrations, as well as army and navy mutinies. Although the shooting was not Nicholas II’s fault, he was given the nickname, “ The Bloody Murderer” and stated that he was not going to make any changes for the people. This was the last major event before the Revolution of 1905 officially broke out. New councils created by urban workers in order to better organize strikes were created called Soviets. During this time, Russian cities were dying because all the workers and peasants were focused on rebelling against the government and seizing the land of their landlords, instead of working in the factories and living the life of a peasant or urban worker.
And after gaining the capital, Pol Pot declared “Year Zero.” Pol Pot created the Cambodia Genocide, to help create his new society. The people that were targeted were: members of the former government, Buddhist monks, Muslims, educated people including university students and teachers, people in contact with Westerners or Vietnamese. The Khmer Rouge started out with rejecting higher education, and was purging those who were. And by
Circle of blame Illegal aliens smuggle themselves across the border and drain our country of resources (and by resources I mean money the government skims from the top of your paycheck and mine). These people are not wanted in the United States and do nothing but pollute our streets, take our jobs, lower our wages, and take advantage of the healthcare we pay for. Of all this I was certain before reading Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway, a riveting account of U.S. border policy. It was my natural inclination to hold the illegal aliens responsible for all problems at the border since; after all, they are the ones killing themselves by trying to creep into this country. However, Urrea’s knowledge of the desert land and law as well as his ability to present the loaded issue at hand from multiple points of view leaves readers wondering where to point a finger of blame.
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, some conspiracy theorists believe that the deliberate extermination of 6 million Jews in the Nazi concentration camps is simply a conspiracy intended to discredit Hitler. They do not deny that Jews were interned in prison camps during World War II but argue that the number of deaths was greatly exaggerated. They say that the pictures of emaciated people and bodies stacked like cord wood were actually of Poles and Germans who died of typhus rather than being the victims of mistreatment. They maintain that gas chambers were just a rumor. To buy into this revisionist view one would need to discount the mountain of pictorial and first-hand witness evidence available, but that’s never stood in the way
Woojun Kim English 02/13/12 Similarity of North Korea and Animal Farm The Novel Animal Farm by George Orwell shows animal rebel against human and dominating the farm by one greedy animal. After rebellion, instead of human, pigs rule the animal farm. At first, animal farm is going to flourish, but greedy pigs finally ruined whole farm life. Minority’s greed ruined majority’s dream. When I finished the book, I thought this phenomenon is similar to modern communism country North Korea.
In addition to this he tried to kill every doctor and teacher or other persons that are more educated than other. He made every person move out of the city into the countryside to live and work as farmers. He believed that it was important that every living being has the same right so he found it easier to reduce the rights of people than give them rights. He believed that if everyone were a farmer there would be no class system. No doctors who would earn a lot of money while other people died of hunger.
“Assess the aims of the Communist Party of Kampuchea under Pol Pot and the effect it had on the people” The communist party of Kampuchea aimed at creating a classless society where “the peasants were regarded as the backbone of society” Sok Udom Deth 2009 . To create this classless society the Communist party of Kampuchea carried out a radical program of confiscating all property, abolishing all schools and relocating people from urban areas to collective farms formatting the year zero for Cambodia. To make sure people adhered to the classless agrarian society mass execution were taken out on intellectual citizens or citizens of high wealth or standards. The aims of the Communist Party of Kampuchea led to the separation and displacement of families, mass starvation and disease and the one of the worst Genocides in history. Pol Pots aim at a making Cambodia a classless society with the peasants at the backbone formed a largely agrarian based economy.
What are the main themes that Orwell is concerned with and what techniques does he use to get his message across? Animal farm is one of George Orwell’s most widely known works of literature. The novel follows the events of a group of farm animals who overthrow their human master, and expecting then to create their own communist, self-sufficient society. In this utopia-like ambition, each is respected and can share the gains made by the whole group equally, this idea is named Animalism. Not surprisingly, the result is not at all desirable and the animals find themselves in fact worse of then before.