Pol Pot’s Revolution Began at Phnom Penh Railway Station?
Автор: In the Shadows of Utopia Podcast
Загружено: 2025-08-23
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Phnom Penh’s railway station looks peaceful today — but it was once the stage where Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge took their first steps toward revolution.
In 1960, underground communist leaders including Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, and Ieng Sary secretly gathered here to rebrand their movement as the Workers’ Party of Kampuchea. A pivotal moment in the history of the Cambodian Communist Party.
Fifteen years later, when the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh in April 1975, the station became a key headquarters. Pol Pot and the top leadership met here as the city was forcibly emptied, foreign embassies surrounded, and their new order imposed on Cambodia. Later, the railway hub was used again as thousands of people were loaded onto trains and deported to remote labor camps.
Today the station is beautifully restored (perhaps a little too renovated?), but it remains a silent witness to these turning points in Cambodian history.
Watch as I explore this landmark and uncover its hidden past.
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