Summary of The Deadliest Dictator Isn't Who You Think

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The video titled "The Deadliest Dictator Isn't Who You Think" explores the atrocities committed by Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, arguing that he is the deadliest dictator in history based on his kill-to-population ratio. While historical figures like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao are often cited as the worst dictators due to their high death tolls, the video emphasizes that the deadliness of a dictator should be measured by the percentage of their population that they killed.

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The video is presented by an unnamed host who provides commentary and analysis throughout.

Notable Quotes

01:00 — « It's clear now that it's not really about how many people die, but rather the proportion of people that die, which determines just how deadly something REALLY is. »
08:59 — « Pol Pot's flavor of Communism meant that Cambodia would become an agrarian, pre-industrial, self-sufficient, classless, Utopia, where so-called capitalist ideas like private property, religion, family, money, and even cities were to be eradicated. »
10:10 — « A famous Khmer Rouge expression to the new people was 'to keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss'. »
14:17 — « The Khmer Rouge's rationale was 'to stop them from growing up and taking revenge for their parents' deaths'. »
19:12 — « I guess even at that age, he was still able to stick his pole in her pot. »

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