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What were some of Pol Pot's greatest achievements?
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Pol Pot had a number of great achievements during his rule of the Democratic Kampuchea regime between 1975 to 1979, including nationalizing all industry, modernizing the agrarian economy with the goal of achieving self-sufficiency, and implementing universal free education up through university level. He also made healthcare universally accessible and improved social welfare benefits throughout the country. Additionally, Pol Pot is believed to have released many prisoners from the former Cambodian penal system, while disbanding much of the Cambodian military, effectively rendering Cambodia pacifist. Finally, his policies of economic decentralization and autarky allowed the Khmer people to thrive during his rule, despite the political and economic isolation in which Democratic Kampuchea found itself.