The Khmer Rouge regime became the most terrible dictatorship in human history. Pyramids of human skulls, mass graves with thousands of nameless victims... But did the Khmer Rouge really have anything to do with this? Was the brilliant Sorbonne student Pol Pot a monster or was he made so by Soviet and American propaganda to hide his own sins? What ruined a young, prosperous country with which the most respectable international institutions sought to be friends? The facts presented in the presented book are amazing. Oleg Samorodny is perhaps the only specialist on the history of the Khmer Rouge in the post-Soviet space. This book is the most objective study of the issue in Russian! The author mercilessly exposes the myths about the “monstrous genocide” and names its real culprits. A book for everyone interested in the history of the Cold War.