<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think that Stalin and Mao were different from Pol Pot.<BR>Where the Khmer Rouge set up killing factories, the PRC and USSR killed<BR>mostly from incompetence and disregard.  For the victims, of course, that<BR>matters little, but historically I think it does make a difference.<BR><BR>As for Kampuchea being a manifestation of Marxism-Leninism, that's questionable.<BR>It was, after all, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam which overthrew<BR>that murderous regime.<BR><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>