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The Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), also known as the Khmer Communist Party, was a communist party in Kampuchea. Its leader was Pol Pot, and its members were generally known as the Khmer Rouge. Originally founded in 1951, the party was split into pro-Chinese and pro-Soviet factions as a result of the Sino-Soviet split, with the former led by the Pol Pot faction and the latter aligned with the Soviet Union, which the Pol Pot faction denounced as revisionist. While pro-Chinese, Deng Xiaoping criticised the Khmer Rouge for engaging in "deviations from Marxism–Leninism". Albania's Enver Hoxha referred to Pot as a "barbarous fascist". As such, it claimed that 30 September 1960 was its founding date; it was named the Workers' Party of Kampuchea, before it was renamed the Communist Party in 1966.