I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekanino show.

Thomas is back and we're going to start a new series today, so I'm going to let Thomas take it away.

Thank you, Thomas. How are you doing?

Well, I believe an understudied aspect, not just of the Cold War, but in 20th century studies and

Marxist-Leninist studies, as well as disciplines tending towards scaled, sociopolitical behavior.

There's a general neglect of

Democratic Campocia, which existed from

1975, 1999. That was the Khmer Rouge regime.

It's invoked by a lot of these midwit academics as some cautionary tale from history.

And these people, part of it's born of ignorance, part of it's born of commitment to an ideological narrative.

They assign these arbitrary criteria, categorical criteria to what they call genocides.

Conspicuously, of course, the Soviet Union during the phase or epoch when America was allied with the Soviet state is conspicuously redacted.

But they'll lump together, Rwanda,

Democratic Campuchia, the Third Reich,

sometimes Edia means Uganda,

and declare that these are instances of genocide,

you know, again, according to arbitrary metrics,

a combination of what they perceive of as the moral depravity

of the government in question and the scale of attrition.

That doesn't really tell us anything.

Don't get me wrong.

One of the reasons I invoke Ernst & Ote so much is

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