Heck, forget China, Vietnam, and Cambodia, there’s also the fact that even Karl friggin’ Marx himself specifically cited the French Revolution, specifically Robespierre’s Reign of Terror, was not only the aim of Communism when he wrote the theory, but he intended to make it even MORE of a bloodbath than even that sordid event. If China, Vietnam and Cambodia are the grandchildren of the result of Bastille Day, then Karl Marx’s philosophies are the children of that same result.
A huge number of the Communist party members who influenced the cultural revolution were FOREIGN STUDENTS in France.