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March 19, 2010 Global Museum on Communism (Spring 2010 Trust Magazine perspective)

"In less than two years, the museum moved from an 'inspired idea' to a world-class Internet platform that will help educate this and future generations about the history, philosophy and legacy of communism. The museum has the potential to reach and teach people every hour of every day, regardless of where they are in the world."

Press Releases

July 22, 2010 News Release - Ukraine Exhibit Now Online

Ukraine Exhibit is now online at the Global Museum on Communism.

July 8, 2010 Statement of VOCMF Chairman Lee Edwards Re: Release of Cuban Political Prisoners

Dr. Lee Edwards responds to the decision by Communist Cuba to release 52 political prisoners.

June 17, 2010 CITIZEN'S PETITION TO REMOVE STALIN - Now Posted

As part of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation's national campaign to remove the bust of Joseph Stalin from the D-Day Memorial, a citizen's petition to the Foundation and to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is now posted.

June 4, 2010 Statement of Dr. Lee Edwards on the Dedication of Stalin Statue at D-Day Memorial

Dr. Lee Edwards, chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, responds to the upcoming dedication of a statue of Joseph Stalin at the D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia.

April 12, 2010 Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation offers condolences to Poland as President and 95 others killed in tragic aviation accident

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation extends its deepest condolences to the Polish people and the families of President Lech Kaczynski, First Lady Maria Kaczynski, Anna Walentynowicz and those traveling with them to memorialize the victims of the Katyn Massacre.

Articles

June 30, 2010 Just say no to Uncle Joe Stalin

National D-Day Memorial honors a communist monster

June 30, 2010 Virginia county board comes out against Stalin sculpture

A controversial sculpture of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin drew international outrage when it was unveiled earlier this month at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va. Now, the D-Day Memorial Foundation faces opposition right in its own backyard.

June 24, 2010 Hungarian foreign minister honors victims

Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi laid a wreath at the Victims of Communism Memorial on June 24th.

June 16, 2010 The best weapon against North Korea's lies: information

The most fragile thing about the North Korean regime is the structure of deception that supports it.

June 15, 2010 CRAIG SHIRLEY: 2 unheralded heroes deserve recognition

One hails the end of the human bondage of the Evil Empire, while the other champions the birth and rebirth of human liberty, as achieved by the men and women of our armed forces.

June 11, 2010 Victims of Communism Memorial Ceremony: Communism Still Not Dead

The third anniversary of the Victims of Communism Memorial, on June 10, was a solemn yet beautiful ceremony. Flower wreathes from 31 embassies and national organizations decorated the location, two blocks from the nation's Capitol Building.

June 8, 2010 They called her "Justice"

Anna Walentynowicz's death is a great loss for two nations, Poland and Ukraine, which had become very dear to her in the last years of her life.

June 6, 2010 Church beatifies Pole slain by communists in 1984

Thousands of Poles filled a vast sunbathed square in Warsaw for the beatification of Jerzy Popieluszko, a charismatic priest tortured and killed in 1984 by communist Poland's secret police for supporting Lech Walesa's Solidarity freedom movement.

June 6, 2010 Statue of Mass Murderer Stalin unveiled in Virginia

Today is the 66th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

June 4, 2010 Some protest Stalin bust at D-Day memorial

A bust of dictator Joseph Stalin has been placed at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford despite public protest over its presence.

May 24, 2010 Castro's European Apologists

Do left-wing European journalists and politicians share the blame for the 50-year duration of the Castro dictatorship? Cuban human rights campaigner Armando Valladares seems to think so.

May 23, 2010 Mao portrait saboteurs Yu Dongyue and Yu Zhijian granted asylum in America
May 7, 2010 Russian president slams 'totalitarian' USSR

In an interview with the Izvestia newspaper published two days before Russia marks the 65th anniversary of victory in World War II, Medvedev said the crimes of wartime dictator Joseph Stalin could never be forgiven.

May 6, 2010 Russia owes Poland an apology for massacre, U.S. official says

"Russia needs a clear and unequivocal apology to the Polish people for what was done 70 years ago," said Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., at a conference of scholars, experts and analysts from Poland, Russia and the U.S. as well as members of Congress who met at the Library of Congress.

May 5, 2010 What you cannot read in the Chinese press
April 27, 2010 New Russian Web Site Highlights Resistance to Soviets in Baltics, Western Ukraine and Western Belarus after World War II

Many of the peoples in these countries will be able to use this site to learn more about the national resistance in their past than many of them have up to now.

April 26, 2010 Vietnam, in sadness but not in shame

America's more than 1.5 million Vietnamese-Americans this week will mourn the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the Republic of [South] Vietnam.

April 13, 2010 WOMAN OF IRON: Anna Walentynowicz, dead, on the tragic flight bound for Katyn

VOCMF Board Member Dr. Michael Szporer remembers Anna Walyntynowicz. Ms. Walyntynowicz was tragically killed in the Polish President's plane crash on April 10, 2010.

April 12, 2010 Glenn Beck's "The Revolutionary Holocaust - Live Free... or Die"

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation has posted this extraordinary documentary about the origins and impact of communism.

April 10, 2010 Solidarity "Godmother" Walentynowicz Dies in Katyn Plane Crash

Anna Walentynowicz, a Solidarity activist whose firing started the Gdansk shipyard strike in 1980 and helped spread trade-union activism against the communist regime in Poland, died in the plane crash in Russia on Saturday. She was honored by the VOCMF with the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom in 2005.

March 8, 2010 Memorial Calls on Medvedev to Denounce Katyn as Crime against Humanity
February 22, 2010 Veteran Times columnist Arnold Beichman, 96, dies

was a foe of communism

February 4, 2010 The U.S. must speak out against China's offenses
One year ago today, China kidnapped my husband (By Geng He)


January 27, 2010 Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
January 24, 2010 Cuba Steps Up Internal Repression: Human Rights' Rapporteurs Threatened

This past week, the Cuban regime stepped-up its repressive tactics and several leaders of Cuba's opposition movement have been beaten and arrested.

January 22, 2010 A Korean Japanese family's bitter 'homecoming'

Ethnic Korean Ko Jong-mi's family was lured from Japan to North Korea, forbidden to return, when she was a toddler. Her misery and her mother's painful regret inspired Ko to find a way back.

January 22, 2010 Communism is Still Here, and it's Still Evil

Four imprisoned for advocating freedom of expression and a multi-party system for Vietnam.

January 20, 2010 Glenn Beck's 'The Revolutionary Holocaust' to feature VOCMF Chairman Dr. Lee Edwards

Hour long special will examine roots of communism and discuss the Ukrainian Holodomor, a special look at the iconic fashion symbol of Che Guevara, Mao Zedong's 70-million victims and more. Jan. 22, 5pm EST on FoxNews.

January 20, 2010 Vietnam to try democracy activists for subversion

The trial of leading human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh and three other democracy activists for subversion has begun in Vietnam.

January 18, 2010 Google 'Deadly Business' - A human-rights game changer.

Wei Jingsheng, now in the U.S., represents those back in his native land whom we cannot hear from - whom we may never hear from, if the regime there has its way.

January 16, 2010 U.S. plans to issue official protest to China over attack on Google

Officials said the administration has raised concerns about cybersecurity and Internet freedom with China before.

January 14, 2010 Ukrainian President Yushchenko initiates creation of international tribunal for Communist crimes
January 13, 2010 Google No Longer Willing to Censor Search Results, May leave China
January 11, 2010 Window on Eurasia: 'Epidemic' of Nostalgia among Russians for Soviet Times Dangerous, Psychotherapist Warns

Nostalgia for the Soviet past, which is spreading like "an epidemic" through Russian society, reflects the dissatisfaction of most Russians with the current situation.

January 9, 2010 Vaclav Havel and other Czech dissidents stand up for Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo
January 8, 2010 In North Korea, Resistance is the New Currency

Power of private markets appears to weaken leader's near absolute authority even as Kim Jong Il's latest surprise currency evaluation wiped out personal wealth and has incited a backlash.

January 5, 2010 Ihor Sevcenko, Byzantine and Slavic Scholar, Dies at 87

as a young man, Sevcenko persuaded George Orwell to collaborate with him on a Ukrainian translation of "Animal Farm" for distribution to refugees.