p The triumph of the revolution in Kampuchea and the establishment of the People’s Republic is of great international importance. As Leonid Brezhnev has pointed out, the forces of socialism and democracy have triumphed in Kampuchea, which is a major achievement for the world revolutionary movement. Kampuchea has returned to the camp of today’s progressive forces, from which Peking’s proteges tried to wrest it. Real prospects for building a new life on truly socialist foundations and the principles of scientific socialism, have opened up before the Kampuchean people.

p The long military confrontation between Vietnam and Kampuchea has at last come to an end. The solidarity between the three fraternal countries of Indochina—Kampuchea, Vietnam and Laos is now developing on the principles of Marxism-Leninism, proletarian internationalism and respect for one another’s independence and sovereignty; it is an important factor guaranteeing the complete and decisive triumph of the revolution in each of the countries.

p The fall of the anti-popular clique in Kampuchea, which constantly disturbed peace in South-East Asia, has brought a radical improvement in the situation in the region. Real prerequisites have been created for establishing and developing solid relations based on friendship, mutual trust and good-neighbourliness between all the countries of Indochina, including Thailand, for extending detente in South-East Asia, and for transforming the region into a zone of peace, independence, freedom and neutrality, a zone of stability and prosperity.

p In conclusion, let us consider one of the most important aspects of the historical changes that have taken place in Kampuchea. This is the first anti-Maoist revolution in the history of the world revolutionary and national liberation movement, the first victorious revolutionary movement by the popular masses against the essentially anti-scientific theoretical schemes and practices of Maoism, and against the reactionary policies of the present Chinese leadership, whose scion in Kampuchea was the bloody Pol Pot-Ieng Sary regime.

p The victory of the people’s anti-Maoist revolution in Kampuchea is thus of international significance. A powerful blow had been dealt at Maoism in Kampuchea, and the groundlessness and adventuristic nature revealed of the so-called “Chinese path to socialism" of a barrack-room type, which Peking propaganda has been doggedly trying to foist on other nations. There is no future in attempts to build a sociopolitical structure Peking-style.

The developments in Kampuchea have shown quite clearly that anyone who involves himself in China’s notorious designs, in Peking’s reactionary activities on the world stage, is working counter to the vital interests of his people and is inevitably doomed to failure. The inglorious end of the Chinese “experiment” in Kampuchea must have a sobering effect on those political forces, particularly in the newly-free countries, that still harbour illusions concerning the real role played by the Chinese renegades in the world and that still blindly consider home-grown Maoists or actual Chinese agents, of whom Peking is creating new “Pol Pots" and “Ieng Sarys" to carry out its expansionist designs, as real revolutionaries.