Blog Entries 2 Pol Pot and Stalin were bad too! Pol Pot (19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998), [1] [2] born Saloth Sar ( Khmer : ប៉ុល ពត), was a Cambodian Maoist revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge [4] from 1963 until his death in 1998. From 1963 to 1981,