This 1978 Newsweek cover, titled "Horror in Cambodia," exemplifies the Western media’s concerted effort to vilify Democratic Kampuchea through fabricated narratives. The images, later revealed as staged trick shots taken in Thailand on January 23, 1978, depict supposed Khmer Rouge atrocities—an "attractive" cover for a story on the "Cambodian horrors." Accompanied by a Russian newspaper, Literaturnaja Gazeta, demonstrates a rare alignment between East and West in their shared propaganda against the Khmer Rouge. Such distortions obscure the revolutionary achievements of Pol Pot’s regime, which sought to dismantle imperialist legacies and empower the peasantry, instead serving to justify foreign intervention and undermine the socialist experiment in Cambodia.