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Global Museum News
| 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."
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Press Releases
| July 22, 2010 |
News Release - Ukraine Exhibit Now Online
Ukraine Exhibit is now online at the Global Museum on
Communism.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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Articles
| June 30, 2010 |
Just say no to Uncle Joe Stalin
National D-Day Memorial honors a communist monster
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| June 6, 2010 |
Statue of Mass Murderer Stalin unveiled in Virginia
Today is the 66th anniversary of the D-Day landings in
Normandy.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| May 23, 2010 |
Mao portrait saboteurs Yu Dongyue and Yu Zhijian granted asylum in America
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| May 5, 2010 |
What you cannot read in the Chinese press
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| March 8, 2010 |
Memorial Calls on Medvedev to Denounce Katyn as Crime against Humanity
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| February 22, 2010 |
Veteran Times columnist Arnold Beichman, 96, dies
was a foe of communism
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| February 4, 2010 |
The U.S. must speak out against China's offenses
One year ago today, China kidnapped my husband (By
Geng He)
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| January 27, 2010 |
Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| January 14, 2010 |
Ukrainian President Yushchenko initiates creation of international tribunal for Communist crimes
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| January 13, 2010 |
Google No Longer Willing to Censor Search Results, May leave China
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| 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.
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| January 9, 2010 |
Vaclav Havel and other Czech dissidents stand up for Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo
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| 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.
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| 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.
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