Before Khmer Rouge was in power, The United States and its allies have been carpet bombing the entire country of Cambodia with the exception of Phnom Penh, dropping 1.2 millions tons of bomb every 8 minutes 24/7 by US B-52 for years. Just check ''Operation Menu'' and ''Operation Freedom Deal''. Pol Pot took this advantage to gain popularity and applied Utopia based on the policy of Angkorian Era called ''Angkar'' mix with Nazi ideology He later betrayed Vietnam and the Soviet Union. implemented ethnic cleansing, anti-Vietnamese policies, the abolition of soviet hospitals, embassies, etc. and implemented year zero, which means starting from scratch putting the country in primitive state turmoil. When the Vietnamese army liberated Cambodia with the help of Khmer PRK forces of Hun Sen so called ''Vietrnamese Invasion of Cambodia'' by the West, The United States, Thailand, and China feared Soviet influenced in Indochina and did proxy war against Vietnam and Soviet Union indirectly supported or funded the Khmer Rouge as a way to invalidated the Vietnamese, Soviet-backed Khmer PRK government, at that time China was not really a power threat to the west so they would preferred genocidal Pro-Maoist Khmer Rouge government than Khmer PRK. they also created Asian version of NATO called SEATO but was dissolved later. Even after the cold war and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, NATO continued to exist and terrorized small countries around the world specifically in Africa and Middle East. supporting separatist groups, opposition groups, even neo-nazi groups, and radical terrorists like ISIS, it doesn't not matter what groups as long as it is beneficial for the United States and the West to keep them in power. When Great Ho Chi Minh unite Vietnam as one France and United States could not do anything. lesson here its ok if to be a nationalist but do not let Western politics, or policies divide us! stay united with your comrades!
😭😭😭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🙏🙏🙏🙏Cambodia has been always a target and a threat involving neighboring people into Cambodia country that’s the result of political issues turn out a bloodshed country . Cambodia alone were lively, prosperious , peaceful! Beautiful people ! Intellectuals people with high values modesty characters of Khmers . !
Japanese products including beer were very popular among Cambodian people, and people enjoyed a free and wealthy life before 1975. After Pol Pot`s conquest of Cambodia, I wonder how many people in this video could survide.
1974: Khmer people enjoying good life. But little they know within a year from 1974, that after April 17, 1975, they lost everything, including their own lives
Watching and listening to all this is actually quite disturbing: you have a vibrant and colourful and interesting culture, it's knowing that a type of horror would occur soon after this
Cool music! Sadly, most of these Khmer artists were murdered by the Khmer Rouge because they were viewed as being decadent and counter revolutionary. Fortunately, Touch Seang Tana (the first song's artist) was able to survive Pol Pot's genocide by passing himself off as a simple peasant. 🙏🏽
If you were smart this is when you get out of Cambodia. At this point Phnom Penh is surrounded and all supply routes cut off, only way to resupply or to leave the city was the airport. It was game over by that point. Lon nol should have left Phnom Penh to the Rouge, and picked a coastal town or a Thai border town as the provisional capital. They can get resupplied indefinitely by the US that way.
They looked modernized and very well-civilised. It's a shame 1/4 of these generation were lost in the genocide, and even now, they're now struggling while getting rid of past traumas.
Communist sent Cambodia back 30 years or even more. Cambodia was vibrant back then and growing. However, currently the economy is bouncing back and is projected to be a middle income economy by 2030. Many foreign investment is being made in Phnom Penh right now.
Cambodia in 1970s was a very prosperous & sophisticated country but the American and the Communist North Vietnam together with its proxy turned enemy had brought it to "Year Zero"
The communist contributed nothing to this country other than the lost of millions of people. Millions of intelligent people. It sent Cambodia back 30 years or even more economically. Communist are all narcissists wishing and forcing everybody to live under their system.
I loved those "micro bus" , I used to ride them to school and go to the markets with my mom.
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The Khmer Republic - putting Cambodia on track to being one of the best countries in Asia, before the Communists made it the worst in the world.
Before Khmer Rouge was in power, The United States and its allies have been carpet bombing the entire country of Cambodia with the exception of Phnom Penh, dropping 1.2 millions tons of bomb every 8 minutes 24/7 by US B-52 for years. Just check ''Operation Menu'' and ''Operation Freedom Deal''. Pol Pot took this advantage to gain popularity and applied Utopia based on the policy of Angkorian Era called ''Angkar'' mix with Nazi ideology He later betrayed Vietnam and the Soviet Union. implemented ethnic cleansing, anti-Vietnamese policies, the abolition of soviet hospitals, embassies, etc. and implemented year zero, which means starting from scratch putting the country in primitive state turmoil. When the Vietnamese army liberated Cambodia with the help of Khmer PRK forces of Hun Sen so called ''Vietrnamese Invasion of Cambodia'' by the West, The United States, Thailand, and China feared Soviet influenced in Indochina and did proxy war against Vietnam and Soviet Union indirectly supported or funded the Khmer Rouge as a way to invalidated the Vietnamese, Soviet-backed Khmer PRK government, at that time China was not really a power threat to the west so they would preferred genocidal Pro-Maoist Khmer Rouge government than Khmer PRK. they also created Asian version of NATO called SEATO but was dissolved later. Even after the cold war and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, NATO continued to exist and terrorized small countries around the world specifically in Africa and Middle East. supporting separatist groups, opposition groups, even neo-nazi groups, and radical terrorists like ISIS, it doesn't not matter what groups as long as it is beneficial for the United States and the West to keep them in power. When Great Ho Chi Minh unite Vietnam as one France and United States could not do anything. lesson here its ok if to be a nationalist but do not let Western politics, or policies divide us! stay united with your comrades!
th-cam.com/video/2yfBz5qoc7w/w-d-xo.html this is a great documentary
The fact that a whole bunch of these people are dead and were killed by the genocide is extremely morbid and eerie
In just a year their world was turned completely upside down.
មាតុភូមិដ៏កំសត់របស់ខ្ញុំ😭
😭😭😭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🙏🙏🙏🙏Cambodia has been always a target and a threat involving neighboring people into Cambodia country that’s the result of political issues turn out a bloodshed country . Cambodia alone were lively, prosperious , peaceful! Beautiful people ! Intellectuals people with high values modesty characters of Khmers . !
กัมพูชา ยุคนั้นเจริญมากๆ ยุคคลาสสิคที่ทุกคนคิดถึง ภาพเก่าที่เรามีความทรงจำไม่ลืมเลือน
เเต่อีก1ปีต่อมา 💀
@@NorthKoreaxYT1234 ใช่แล้ว💀
ភ្នំពេញ ឆ្នាំ ១៩៧៤ សម័យ សាធារណរដ្ឋខ្មែរ។
Japanese products including beer were very popular among Cambodian people, and people enjoyed a free and wealthy life before 1975. After Pol Pot`s conquest of Cambodia, I wonder how many people in this video could survide.
All good songs, but the last one is really beautiful.
Golden era of Khmer youth
1974: Khmer people enjoying good life. But little they know within a year from 1974, that after April 17, 1975, they lost everything, including their own lives
Watching and listening to all this is actually quite disturbing: you have a vibrant and colourful and interesting culture, it's knowing that a type of horror would occur soon after this
ទំនើបណាស់❤️
Yes good
I wonder if all these people shown managed to survive the Khmer Rouge era.
Pol pot killed them all
I think some of them might not survive and some might survive
@@NorthKoreaxYT1234 no shi7 Sherlock!
The death rate was 2/7, so most people would've survived.
@@iiiii5256 but these were urban people. I think they wouldn’t have survived.
I can see many Japanese CDs in the shops in this video.
CDs weren't invented yet in 1974
ខ្ញុំស្រណោះសាធារណះរដ្នណាស់
just a year before everything had been finished.
សូមអ្នកក្រុង ភ្នំពេញបាន ចម្រើនរុងរឿងក្នុង សម័យលន់នល់។
Cool music! Sadly, most of these Khmer artists were murdered by the Khmer Rouge because they were viewed as being decadent and counter revolutionary.
Fortunately, Touch Seang Tana (the first song's artist) was able to survive Pol Pot's genocide by passing himself off as a simple peasant. 🙏🏽
Amazing video.
If you were smart this is when you get out of Cambodia.
At this point Phnom Penh is surrounded and all supply routes cut off, only way to resupply or to leave the city was the airport. It was game over by that point.
Lon nol should have left Phnom Penh to the Rouge, and picked a coastal town or a Thai border town as the provisional capital. They can get resupplied indefinitely by the US that way.
Flights are expensive, about 80% of the people in the video could not afford them in their current circumstances.
This music is like Cambodian version of Jimi Hendrix.
គ្រប់យ៉ាងមកពីយួនយៀកកុង
កុំបន្ទាស់គេ មកពីយេីងខ្លួនឯងទេ សប្បាយភ្លេចខ្លួន ពុករលួយ ស្រីញី ស្រលាញ់ស្ដេចពេក ទុកចិត្តពេក ឯលុនលន ក៏គ្មានសមត្ថភាព ឃឿលេី មន្ដអាគម ច្រេីនជាងភាពជាក់ស្ដែង
ឃើញ ចឹង ស្រណោះកាលនៅក្មេងណាស់សប្បាយណាស់មិនដែរភយ័រឿងឆក់ប្លន់ឬចោរលួចតាមផ្ទះគ្មានទេដេកចំហរទ្វាក៏គ្មានចោរចូលលួចអីដែសុខសាន្ដណាស់
Only year before Khmer Rouge's regime
សម័យនោះមានស្រាបៀជប៉ុនASAHI ដែរតើ។
ភ្នំពេញឆ្នាំ74កំពុងពេញសប្បាយក្នុងសម័យលន់នល់ឯខ្ញុំចាកចេញពីខេត្តកំពង់ចាមនៅឆ្នាំ73រងទុក្ខវេទនានឹងកាទម្លាក់គ្រាប់បែកពីសំណាក់ចក្រពត្តិអាមររិក
Thanks for this awesome video. What's the last song?
Here it is
m.th-cam.com/video/_rZ4wVpO4nY/w-d-xo.html
@@flyingapsara8905 Thank you, Sir
It would have been the wealthiest country in SE Asia now if not for the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot.
🙏🏽🇰🇭🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭😭😭😭😭
My poor 😢 home town place I can't forget all my family are dead
What's the name of the first song?
Here it is
m.th-cam.com/video/HxhjAT5Gffs/w-d-xo.html
Do you know the first song?
Here it is
m.th-cam.com/video/HxhjAT5Gffs/w-d-xo.html
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They looked modernized and very well-civilised. It's a shame 1/4 of these generation were lost in the genocide, and even now, they're now struggling while getting rid of past traumas.
Communist sent Cambodia back 30 years or even more. Cambodia was vibrant back then and growing. However, currently the economy is bouncing back and is projected to be a middle income economy by 2030. Many foreign investment is being made in Phnom Penh right now.
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what is the second song?
L'époque ou on parlé Encore français au Cambodge
Song title? 6:50
ម៉ារូបេទី
Respect to General Lon Nol.
Lon Nol was the lesser of two evils
@Evangelos Amata Kneeling to someone is Evil.
@Evangelos Amata If You not a person of non Abrahamic Faith Yes
@Evangelos Amata Kneeling to someone is Slavery. You can kneel only to God.
@Evangelos Amata thats Right)
Cambodia in 1970s was a very prosperous & sophisticated country but the American and the Communist North Vietnam together with its proxy turned enemy had brought it to "Year Zero"
Luckily this culture of consumption came to an end after the liberation of the country by the Khmer Rouge. They stomped our this vile system
Are you saying you wish the Khmer Rouge to liberate your country?
oh look it’s a dumb bot 🤖
I don't know you meant or not.. but to use word "liberation" completely unacceptable.. you should replace with appropriate word "invasion"
The communist contributed nothing to this country other than the lost of millions of people. Millions of intelligent people. It sent Cambodia back 30 years or even more economically.
Communist are all narcissists wishing and forcing everybody to live under their system.
KR was the worst thing that ever happened to Cambodia. Communism, especially Maoism, is evil.
ខ្ញុំមើលស្រក់ទឹកភ្នែកខ្ញុំជំនាន់លោកលន់ណុលណាស់