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Literaturnaya Gazeta, No. 40, 1978

p “From the day of liberation, they destroyed all the achievements of the revolution and subjected our land to countless sufferings.

p They herded all the people into concentration camps disguised as “communes”, doomed them to hunger and shameful slavery. They turned the whole of Kampuchea into one huge and terrible prison. How many honest people they killed; how many revolutionary patriots, old party workers, and 61 members of the armed forces they barbarously annihilated. They stamped out all the wonderful customs and traditions of our people, separated children from their parents, wives from husbands, and destroyed our ancient culture. They became the pathetic lackeys of China’s reactionary clique that had unleashed a war with Vietnam, accusing it of aggression in order to deceive our people and draw it into a bloody war.”

From a leaflet distributed underground in Kampuchea