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主题: 在希特勒之后，谁是历史上最坏的独裁者？

After Hitler, which dictator was the worst in history?

Susanna Viljanen, Works at Aalto University

Hitler wasn’t the worst. My vote goes to Pol Pot. He was the dictator of Cambodia 1976–1978.
希特勒并不是最坏的。我投波尔布特一票。他是1976-1978年间的柬埔寨独裁者。

His claims to infame:
他声名狼藉的原因：

·Killed more people in proportion to the size of the nation than any other dictator
·依国家大小的比例算，比其他任何独裁者都杀死了更多人

·Killed most people in shortest timeframe
·在最短的时间范围内杀死了最多的人

·Destroyed the economy of Cambodia
·摧毁了柬埔寨经济

Destroyed the intelligentsia of Cambodia
·摧毁了柬埔寨知识阶层

·Effectively rendered Cambodia back to the Bronze Age
·高效地让柬埔寨返回青铜时代

·Destroyed the infrastructure of Cambodia
·摧毁了柬埔寨的基础建设

·Caused a man-made famine in Cambodia
·在柬埔寨引发了一场人为的饥荒

·Obliterated literacy in Cambodia
·彻底毁灭了柬埔寨人的读写能力

·Deurbanized and deindustrialized the country completely
·让国家完全去城市化和去工业化

·Sowed the land full of land mines, making 30% of the fields of Cambodia uncultivable
·在地上布满地雷，让柬埔寨30%的土地无法耕种

·Founded the largest extermination camps ever and coined the concept “killing fields”.
·建立了最大规模的灭绝集中营并创造了“杀人场”这个概念。

Finally his ambitions went too far when he attacked Vietnam. The Khmer Rouge military, already starving and badly armed for anything else than terrorizing unarmed people with eyeglasses, collapsed in front of the Vietnamese military (who had just kicked the arses of both USA and China).
最终当他进攻越南时，他的野心彻底走远了。红色高棉军队已经处于饥饿之中，并且武装很差，除了用眼镜来恐吓手无寸铁的民众外做不了什么。它们在越南军队（这支军队刚刚踢过美国和中国的屁股）面前崩溃了。

Never before has a foreign conqueror been welcomed so heartly than in Cambodia, and never before has a war turned so quickly into a humanitarian rescue operation as in Cambodia.
在柬埔寨，从未有一位外国征服者能如此由衷地受到欢迎，也从未有一场战争能如此快速地变成一场人道主义救援。

单词表

claim to fame 出名的原因
infame adj. 声名狼藉的
proportion n. 比例
timeframe n. 时间范围
intelligentsia n. 知识阶层
render vt. 致使
infra- pref. 在下的
obliterate v. 彻底毁掉
literacy n. 读写能力
deurbanize v. 去城市化
deindustrialize vt. 去工业化
sow vt. 散布
mine n. 地雷
extermination n. 灭绝
coin v. 创造
starve vi. 挨饿
heartily adv. 衷心地
turn into v. 变成
humanitatian adj. 人道主义的

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时间：2023年2月27日

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回复: 在希特勒之后，谁是历史上最坏的独裁者？

Frank Lazar

That didn’t stop the U.S. from backing this dictator specifically to stick it to Vietnam.
但是这并不妨碍美国支持这位独裁者，专门用来针对越南。

Des Sullivan

Indeed. A disgraceful action, and a stain on the UN for recognising the Khmer Rouge as the legitimate govt in exile.
确实如此。承认红色高棉是一个合法的流亡政府是联合国一个可耻的行为和污点。

Frank Lazar

We really didn’t care what “yellow peril” did to each other. The UN recognition of Pot’s government was backed by the United States which was looking to censure Vietnam for it’s actions there.
我们并不真地在乎“黄祸”相互之间做了些什么。联合国承认波尔布特政府的行动背后有美国在支持，而后者只想借机指责越南在那里的行动。

Thomas Berthil Lund Jorgensen

Or China to do the same. All to get back at Vietnam (and USSR).
美国不支持，中国也会支持。这一切都是为了报复越南（以及苏联）。

Benzion Inditsky

Notwithstanding that he killed 300.000 Chinese minority.
尽管此人杀死了30万中国的少数民族。

Guy Takamatsu

A Chinese Cambodian told me of the Khmer Rouge killing lighter skinned Chinese Cambodians. I guess I was naive and asked something along the lines of “Didn’t the communists say ‘all men are brothers?’” I guess theory is one thing practice is another.
一名柬埔寨华人曾告诉我，红色高棉会杀死肤色相对较浅的柬埔寨华人。我想我可能很天真地问了一些类似“共产主义者不是说‘所有人都是兄弟’吗？”我猜，可能理论是一回事，实际做起来又是一回事。


Simon Long

Some men are more brothers than others.
有些人比起另一些兄弟来要更兄弟一些。

Thomas H Pritchett

Part of the problem with China was that Pol Pot was a Maoist whose revolution was a based upon the Cultural Revolution that had been led my Moa’s wife. Pol Pot was just more successful in his cultural revolution in Cambodia than Moa’s wife had been in China.
对中国来说还有部分问题在于，波尔布特是一位毛主义者，他的革命建立在毛的夫人领导的文化大革命的基础上。只不过波尔布特在柬埔寨发动的文化大革命比毛的夫人在中国曾经发动的更为成功。

单词表

specifically adv. 专门地
stick v. 刺入
disgraceful adj. 可耻的
stain n. 污点
legitimate adj. 合法的
govt =government
exile n. 流亡
peril n. 危险
be backer by 被……支持
censure vt. 责难
look to v. 指望
get back at 报复
notwithstanding prep. 尽管
alone the lines of 类似这样

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