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July 18, 2008 Captive Nations Week, 2008 A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
June 17, 2008 Czech Senator Martin Mejstrík receives Masaryk Award
June 12, 2008 Wreath Laying Ceremony Honors Victims of Communism Worldwide and Pays Tribue to Congressman Tom Lantos
June 9, 2008 Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism - Press Release
June 8, 2008 Wreath Laying Ceremony to Honor the Victims of Communism Worldwide; Tribute to Congressman Tom Lantos
May 20, 2008 A Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People, 2008
March 25, 2008 Belarusan-American Community Honors Victims of Communism on 90th Anniversary of the Belarusan Democratic Republic
February 19, 2008 Memorial Service for Ambassador Lev E. Dobriansky - Feb. 19, 2008
February 12, 2008 Former Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis meets with Foundation

Articles

August 17, 2008 When the worker's paradise was not
July 25, 2008 10 Memorable Memorials
The Washington Post
July 24, 2008 Church, State and History
- The interest in a denunciation of communism may have to do with appeals by former Soviet states for an international condemnation of the massacres and other crimes committed on their territories by the Soviet regime.
July 22, 2008 Remarks at Walter Judd Award Luncheon, by Lee Edwards
July 22, 2008 Remarks of The Honorable Paula J. Dobriansky at the Fund for American Studies Honoring Lee Edwards with the Walter Judd Freedom Award
July 22, 2008 Eight Vietnamese Writers Receive Prestigious Human Rights Prize - Writers Banned, Censored, Harassed, and Jailed
July 20, 2008 The Forsaken: Americans in Stalin's gulags
July 19, 2008 Never forget captive nations
July 17, 2008 Letter from Under Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky regarding Captive Nations Week observance
Letter from Paula J. Dobriansky, the Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, regarding the 50th observance of Captive Nations Week
July 14, 2008 Bronislaw Geremek, who helped end Communist control of Poland, is dead at 76
July 4, 2008 His Last Act?
First and foremost, [Jesse] Helms was a Cold Warrior who hated communism and the Soviet Union.
July 3, 2008 A Past Written In Blood - In the New China, the Story of a Defiant Poet's Last Words Can Finally Be Told
July 1, 2008 Lithuanian Laurels for Lee Edwards
June 29, 2008 Battle Lines - Portraits of people seeking, and resisting, change in China
June 26, 2008 Vietnam prime minister's Houston visit draws protesters
June 25, 2008 Vietnamese-American Protest: Visit reopens old wounds - Refugees who fled communist regime rally for their homeland
June 21, 2008 Nepal: Khanal says Maoist giving bad name to communism
June 19, 2008 Hungarian American Coalition Honors Victims of Communism Worldwide - Washington Ceremony Pays Tribute to Congressman Tom Lantos
June 19, 2008 Vietnamese Groups, Lawmakers Voice Concerns Ahead of Prime Minister's US Visit
June 13, 2008 Hungarian-born Congressman Lantos honoured posthumously in Washington
June 13, 2008 First Anniversary of Victims of Communism Memorial Held in U.S. Capital
June 12, 2008 Embassy of Poland summary of June 12 event
June 12, 2008 Embassy of Hungary summary of June 12 event
June 12, 2008 Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez - June 12, 2008 Transcript
June 12, 2008 Global Museum on Communism to Launch Next Year
June 7, 2008 EU: Deputies Push For Joint Commemoration Of Soviet, Nazi Victims
June 5, 2008 Vladimir Lenin should be buried, says Mikhail Gorbachev
June 3, 2008 East: Conference Hears Calls For Communist Crimes Not To Go Unpunished
June 3, 2008 Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism
June 3, 2008 Internet museum of Communism to be launched
June 2, 2008 Europe bears special responsibility for Nazism, communism - Havel
May 29, 2008 Embassy of the United States in Hungary - Remembering the Victims of Communism
May 20, 2008 Cuba Solidarity Day 2008: Remembering Our Totalitarian Neighbor
May 14, 2008 Joseph Miko; filmed Hungarian Revolution
May 10, 2008 Czech former political prisoners commemorate victims of communism
May 4, 2008 Karachays Mark Anniversary of Return from Soviet-Era Deportation
April 28, 2008 No Space for Dissent - Raúl Castro's answer to the Women in White
April 23, 2008 EU: Bloc Debates Crimes Of Communism, Revealing 'Old,' 'New' Divisions
April 18, 2008 Cuba and the Vatican
April 16, 2008 Conversion Experience - Reconsiderations
Contributors to "The God That Failed" were well-meaning intellectuals; both their attraction to and disillusionment with the Soviet system had idealistic foundations.
April 11, 2008 Interview with Polish Director Andrzej Wajda: An elegy for Poland's Painful Past
April 7, 2008 Chinese Oppression in Tibet, Xinjiang Sparks Protests in Russia
March 31, 2008 Dith Pran, 'Killing Fields' Photographer, Dies at 65
March 25, 2008 Out of East Germany via Bulgaria
Two dangling strands of barbed wire have haunted Olaf Hetze for over a quarter century, since his failed attempt to escape from the Communist bloc, not by going over the Berlin Wall but around it by a little-known route through Bulgaria.
March 19, 2008 China's True Face - The Host of the Olympics or the Thug of Tibet?
Having invited the world to polite tea, the Communist Party rulers have turned their palace of power into a global glass house.
March 18, 2008 Cellphone Pictures In Lhasa
Clearly, the repression of Tibet matters enormously to China's ruling clique...
March 8, 2008 Cover Up for Those Who Carried Out Mass Murder
In the years between 1945 and 1991, the KGB carried on numerous disinformation campaigns to conceal the guilt of the Soviet Union for the murders.
February 25, 2008 New Book Looks Unflinchingly at Tibet
"Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule," published in 2008 by Columbia University Press, details the author's experiences in Chinese prisons and as a forced laborer.
February 24, 2008 Raul Castro's Long History of Crimes Against Humanity
He is directly responsible for crimes against humanity on countless thousands in Cuba and worldwide.
February 23, 2008 A Future Beyond Fidel?
My husband, the other 73 men and the one woman detained in this roundup were all declared prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International.
February 12, 2008 Calling for Removal of Mao's Picture from Tiananmen Square
Letter asks that for 17 days in August 2008, the picture of Mao Zedong be taken down off the Gate of Eternal Peace
February 9, 2008 Lev Dobriansky
February 8, 2008 Lev Dobriansky, Former Economics Professor, Dies at 89
February 6, 2008 Lev E. Dobriansky, 89; Professor and Foe of Communism

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