3 July 1975

Pot answered: “The lines of struggle raised by Chairman Mao are an important strategic issue. We will follow your words in the future. I have read various works of Chairman Mao since I was young, especially the theory on people’s war. Your works have guided our entire party.”

“We agree with you! Much of your experience is better than ours. We committed errors of the political routes for ten times in 50 years—some national, some local. Thus China has no qualification to criticize you but have to applaud you.” He then discusses socialism vs. capitalism.

Pol Pot (middle) and Ieng Sary (right) met with Mao (left) in Beijing, where Mao taught Pot his “Theory of Continuing Revolution under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat”, and sent him over 30 books by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. During the meeting, Mao said to Pol Pot: https://t.co/SsAcr2tDMK

@JimLaurie_Asia I could not find a definitive history on Radio PhnomPenh. That later Reuters reports cite Radio PP as their source, suggests that it went off the air just temporarily. Survivors also tell stories about KR songs broadcasted via radio. I only found the wiki source on Sary’s niece.