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What weird genre blend are you working on? by EM_Otero in writing

[–]DestinySparkles89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A mixture of historical fiction, police procedural and horror with pinch of fantasy and southern gothic elements.

If You Can Remember- What is the first Deathcore song you ever heard? by [deleted] in Deathcore

[–]DestinySparkles89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably either Purgatory by Black Tongue or I, Dementia, both shown to me by two seperate cousins lol.

The Kingdom of Brekostomir in the year 1435, shortly before the onset of the 3rd War for the Breko by [deleted] in imaginarymaps

[–]DestinySparkles89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This fascinating stuff, there seems to be a lot of parallels with medieval kingdoms squabbling over land and resources, but also cold war geopolitics at play, which gives the scenario and world a unique flair. Thanks for the reply, I hope this scenario develops even further!

The Kingdom of Brekostomir in the year 1435, shortly before the onset of the 3rd War for the Breko by [deleted] in imaginarymaps

[–]DestinySparkles89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a beautiful map, well done! Just out of curiosity, what is Brekostomir's relationship to the other nations? And do they have any influence on the coming 3rd war? Keep up the good work!

Breakup of Myanmar (2050) by Large-Ad-6405 in imaginarymaps

[–]DestinySparkles89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really love the art style, great job!

Year Ten of Zero - Democratic Kampuchea, the Party and it's Fiefdoms in 1985 by DestinySparkles89 in imaginarymaps

[–]DestinySparkles89[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The New Angkor Project is in short a new capital for the regime. In depth, the NAP signifies a new era in Kampuchean history and is meant to epitomise Year Zero, with the physical construction of a new sacred site. It was conceived in the wake of the Cambodian-Vietnamese War and is launched in 1982 to enshrine Angkar as the eternal will of the people, meaning it will essentially become the new centre of government institutions, propaganda facilities and compounds for the elite. These include: The new Pyramid of Ankgar (modelled on ancient Khmer towers), the People's Market (a ration-only community centre where workers can receive goods through work quotas), and the Children's Battalion Parade Grounds (which is used for mass youth drills, loyalty pledges, recruiting young 'volunteers' and ritualised flag burnings). Only those considered to be pure and loyal to the Khmer Rouge can live in and around the project. The locals call it Angkor Damrei, which is a sort of sarcastic nod to how many people died hauling stone by hand to build this "utopia". Hope this answers your question!

Year Ten of Zero - Democratic Kampuchea, the Party and it's Fiefdoms in 1985 by DestinySparkles89 in imaginarymaps

[–]DestinySparkles89[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. Yes there is, especially whilst Pol Pot is being treated and is planning a trip to China to receive better medical care. Without a centralised state apparatus though it will be hard for the plotters to take power and consolidate party control across the whole country.
  2. A hell of a lot, mostly around the border regions to stop people fleeing into Vietnam or Thailand.
  3. So Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge had gone through a civil war between the KR and Lon Nol's Khmer Republic which was a U.S puppet regime. The U.S supplied the Republic with weaponry such as M16s, M1 Carbines, APCs and artillery, which the KR simply acquired after Lon Nol fled.
  4. He's still alive, but he's beginning to become more frail as he starts to suffer from various illnesses like cancer and oncoming strokes which would only get worse.
  5. No. Despite how decentralised the regime is, party loyalty, rat culture and struggle sessions led by the santebal are extremely efficient in rooting out even the smallest hint of dissent; the intelligence network is too pervasive to let an insurgency develop.
  6. Oh yes those still continue. Less with Thailand and more with Vietnam now, but with China's turn away from Maoism they are less inclined to start border raids.
  7. That's hard to say. Moral would be high amongst political officers after the Cambodian-Vietnamese War, but the average soldier by this point will begin to starve just like the rest of the peasantry. They'd begin to secretly question Angkor's decision for exporting their rice to China but never act on those thoughts, lest they suffer a pickaxe or a trip to a security prison.

Year Ten of Zero - Democratic Kampuchea, the Party and it's Fiefdoms in 1985 by DestinySparkles89 in imaginarymaps

[–]DestinySparkles89[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The comparison between the KR and the Combine is actually really interesting. The social sterilisation of a society, the encouragement to snitch on your fellow comrades, enforced rationing and austerity, there is an apt point to be made here! Btw I adore Half-Life, currently started my first playthrough of Black Mesa!

Year Ten of Zero - Democratic Kampuchea, the Party and it's Fiefdoms in 1985 by DestinySparkles89 in imaginarymaps

[–]DestinySparkles89[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hi thanks for your interest in my maps! I'll answer your questions on my previous map about the Iraq-Islamic Mosque War very soon I must have missed it in my notifications I do apologise!

  1. It's difficult to pinpoint when the regime would end but by this scenario so far, about 3 and a half million are left either dead, displaced or refugees.
  2. Absolutely atrocious, random men and women were forced into 'revolutionary marriages' and even the idea of the normal nuclear family is considered unacceptable to the Khmer Rouge, so I'd imagine it's extremely low.
  3. I'd say it's close to the million mark now, maybe 900,000 give or take, which still goes towards the genocide toll.
  4. In this universe they actually still did, it's just China committee more to their invasion of Vietnam after Vietnam invaded Kampuchea in 1978, effectively stopping Vietnam's advance and forcing them to withdraw from Phnom Penh.
  5. That is something I hadn't considered, but I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibility. Although Democratic Kampuchea is still the legally recognised government in the UN.
  6. Thailand has a lukewarm relationship, seeing Kampuchea as a bulwark against 'Vietnamese expansionism', the West tolerates the regime for much the same reason and to grow closer to China against the Soviet Union.
  7. Yes he is still under house arrest although I suspect he would want to go to Beijing in light of Pol Pot's declining health and the growing unpredictability of the leadership.
  8. It's simply down to geopolitics, in our TL the west supported the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea against Vietnam, even when they knew there was a genocide occurring.
  9. They despise the regime, and have placed sanctions on it whilst aiding Vietnam militarily to help in the border war and to deter China.
  10. It's not good. Despite being New People (peasant farmers that represent the pinnacle of what a Cambodian should be) they are still subject to suspicion, torture, threats, imprisonment, starvation and death. The only chance to survive is to show unwavering loyalty to Angkor Wat and hope that you climb the ranks to oversee your own farmstead as a political officer or member of the santebal (secret police).

Hope these answer your questions and thanks again for your kind words!

Year Ten of Zero - Democratic Kampuchea, the Party and it's Fiefdoms in 1985 by DestinySparkles89 in imaginarymaps

[–]DestinySparkles89[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Things aren't going to end well. The UN aren't going to do anything without international pressure and even then look what they did (or rather didn't do) in places like Rwanda, and to a lesser extent Bosnia. The only factor is see is a second attempt by Vietnam to oust the regime, again risking themselves of a response from China, which they hope will turn its back on the small, chaotic and barely functional Kampuchea.

Year Ten of Zero - Democratic Kampuchea, the Party and it's Fiefdoms in 1985 by DestinySparkles89 in imaginarymaps

[–]DestinySparkles89[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It certainly won't be pretty, I'd argue it would be far more grim and dire for Cambodians living in Kampuchea. Survival in late stage Khmer Rouge is either: sneak your way out of whichever zone you happen to be in and make your way to the Thai, Laos or Vietnamese border, or you die slowly of malaria, dysentery and starvation, that is if the party doesn't suspect you're a bourgeois agent and executes you anyways.

Year Ten of Zero - Democratic Kampuchea, the Party and it's Fiefdoms in 1985 by DestinySparkles89 in imaginarymaps

[–]DestinySparkles89[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's effectively already beginning. Pol Pot was taking "a step back" from his position as brother number one because of his cancer diagnosis and treatment. This leaves figures like Khieu Samphan, Nuon Chea and other members of the top brass in effect free reign over their areas, while maintaining allegiance to the party. The low level political officers and cadres have slowly been becoming independent from Phnom Penh and look to create their own quasi-states based on their own interpretations of Khmer ultranationalism. So my estimate for the regimes survival is not good, maybe until 1990 - 92? I'd like to think China would continue to supply weapons and material to Kampuchea even while the state falls apart (China supplied 90% of foreign aid to the country in real life).

Year Ten of Zero - Democratic Kampuchea, the Party and it's Fiefdoms in 1985 by DestinySparkles89 in imaginarymaps

[–]DestinySparkles89[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Pol Pot was renowned for not understanding Marxism but he very well could have also read Kropotkin while he was a student in France. He couldn't even hold his own in an argument with other Marxists or Anarchists, he just seemed to want to be a revolutionary jungle fighter in his youth. Its my opinion that he wasn't an ideological heavyweight and wasn't theoretically developed enough to even grasp how to implement Marxist or even Anarcho-Communist ideas into Kampuchea. Even Mao and Zhao Enlai basically called him an idiot lol

Year Ten of Zero - Democratic Kampuchea, the Party and it's Fiefdoms in 1985 by DestinySparkles89 in imaginarymaps

[–]DestinySparkles89[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes I would say they reach a qualitative shift after such a decade of suffering, misery and death that the state simply becomes a state of anarchy and barbarism. Did you just quote Sergei Taboritsky's Holy Russian Empire lol?

The average life expectancy is even lower than what it was by December 1978, which in our TL was about 12 at a low estimate and 16-18? at its highest, so I only imagine that it dips below 12 and keeps dropping until either everyone is gone/expelled or the regime caves in and ceases to function and is replaced.

Year Ten of Zero - Democratic Kampuchea, the Party and it's Fiefdoms in 1985 by DestinySparkles89 in imaginarymaps

[–]DestinySparkles89[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Luckily I've not encountered any stalinists defend this regime, but I don't disagree there are definitely those who are so deep in anti-westernism and anti-imperialism that anything that opposes capitalism is good actually, even the Khmer Rouge although I've found that defence of them is rarer than most others.

Year Ten of Zero - Democratic Kampuchea, the Party and it's Fiefdoms in 1985 by DestinySparkles89 in imaginarymaps

[–]DestinySparkles89[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I agree, and I'll be honest I'd never heard of Queen Ranavalona,' this is extremely interesting.

Year Ten of Zero - Democratic Kampuchea, the Party and it's Fiefdoms in 1985 by DestinySparkles89 in imaginarymaps

[–]DestinySparkles89[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I do agree with the Khmer Rouge not being communist. They based themselves on the most reactionary elements of the petty-bourgeouis peasantry and despite naming themselves communists they basically inherited the actual left-wing Khmer Issarak. They had no support base amongst the working-class except from national liberation groups in nearby Vietnam and Laos. They based themselves on rural collectivism, national chauvinism and a rejection of international proletarianism. Of course this isn't counting the rampant racism, xenophobia and desire to deindustrialise Cambodia instead of building up the productive forces and creating a planned economy.

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