[Squawk 8888]

Audiences would likely be similarly surprised by cinematic treatments of... the Khmer Rouge genocide,

Unless they went to see The Killing Fields

All quibbling aside they make an excellent point. It took the Italian Fascists to produce the best anti-communist film ever (We the Living), not realizing that it was an equally powerful anti-fascist film.

[Stultis]

Audiences would likely be similarly surprised by cinematic treatments of... the Khmer Rouge genocide,

Unless they went to see The Killing Fields

Elsewhere in the article the points are made (correctly, if too much in passing) that The Killing Fields, #1 didn't show the actual attrocities committed by the communists, and #2 that the movie's spin was to pretty much blame it all on Nixon anyway. IOW the author takes the position (and I agree) that this didn't qualify as an anti-communist movie.