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Press Releases

May 21, 2005 Senate Passes Russian Apology Resolution

Articles

December 31, 2005 Memorial Day: Honoring the victims of Communism
December 31, 2005 The Week in National Review
December 21, 2005 Another "Forgotten War"
December 14, 2005 Anna Walentynowicz accepts Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom
December 13, 2005 D.C. Monument To Be Built In Honor of Victims of Communism
November 29, 2005 Europe must face ugly truths of communist past
October 10, 2005 Fall of an empire
October 7, 2005 Statue to Symbolize Cold War

Planners Discuss Memorial Park, Visitors Center at the Wall
October 6, 2005 Victims of Communism Memorial
September 2, 2005 Vorkuta to Perm: Russia's Concentration - Camp Museums and My Father's Story
August 23, 2005 After Meeting President Bush

An article by Kang Cheol Hwan, the co-chairman of the Democracy Network against North Korean Gulag.
August 3, 2005 The Crimes of Communism Should be Condemned

Member of Swedish Parliament Göran Lindblad's speech at "A Closer Look into China" Forum
July 20, 2005 Captive Nations Week

Commentary by Dr. Lee Edwards on Captive Nations Week.
July 16, 2005 Tortured for Christ

The story of Richard Wurmbrand, founder of leading Christian-persecution organization The Voice of the Martyrs.
July 13, 2005 Friends Network News: North Korea

Various articles and resources discussing North Korean human rights issues.
July 6, 2005 Maintaining the Mao myth
July 3, 2005 Vietnamese boatpeople, victims of communism

Communist government in Vietnam is forcing the Indonesian and Malaysian poeple to destroy memorials they built in the past refugee camps.
July 1, 2005 Berlin Outrage: Checkpoint Charlie Monument to be Bulldozed July 4th (Part 2)
July 1, 2005 Berlin Outrage: Checkpoint Charlie Monument to be Bulldozed July 4th
June 21, 2005 Window on Eurasia: Russians Divided on Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
June 2, 2005 Window on Eurasia: Kremlin Urged to Emulate Patriarch in Honoring Stalin's Victims
May 25, 2005 Window on Eurasia: 'Names that Should Have No Place on the Map of Russia'
May 19, 2005 S. Res. 150 -- EXPRESSING CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL -- (Senate - May 19, 2005)

The Victims of Communism Memorial support resolution passed in the Senate last week, on 5/19. Introduced by Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL).
May 10, 2005 People Keeping Religions in North Korea

An interview of a North Korean defector.
April 25, 2005 65 years later, massacre of Polish troops recalled
April 4, 2005 John Paul II: Winning the Cold War

Thoughts from our Chairman, Dr. Lee Edwards, on the extraordinary life of Pope John Paul II.
March 11, 2005 Advisory Neighborhood Commission 6C - Location Approval Letter
March 9, 2005 Statue Moves Ahead: Memorial to Honor Communism Victims

Jennifer Lash reports recent progress on the proposed site for the Memorial and what steps are to be taken next.
March 5, 2005 The Address of U.S. Representative Thaddeus G. McCotter to the Joint Baltic American National Congress
March 1, 2005 A letter by dissident Nguyen Khac Toan from prison

Mr. Nguyen Khac Toan, a former reporter of Vietnam's Communist Magazine, is serving his unjust 12-year prison sentence, considered to be one of the most severe punishments imposed by the Vietnamese Communist government on democracy activists. He has been said to remain strong in his determination, as shown in the following letter to his family.
February 10, 2005 Status of Political Prisoners in Vietnam

An update on the status of political prisoners in Vietnam.