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Press Releases

November 25, 2008 Embassy of Ukraine Co-Hosts 10th Annual Truman-Reagan Awards Reception
November 16, 2008 10th Annual Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom Awards Reception on November 20
November 2, 2008 Greek Americans offer tribute to Greek Victims of Communism
October 22, 2008 Vietnam: MEPs want progress on human rights before cooperation accord is signed
October 4, 2008 Vietnam: End Crackdown on Catholics
September 3, 2008 Ms. Suzanne Scholte Wins Seoul Peace Prize 2008
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

December 18, 2008 My Stalin
December 15, 2008 Three Kernels of Corn

- The State Department has more pressing concerns than a modern-day gulag.
December 11, 2008 Escapee Tells of Horrors in North Korean Prison Camp

- The U.S. government and human rights groups estimate that 150,000 to 200,000 people are now being held in the North's prison camps.
December 11, 2008 Cuba: Rights Activists Assaulted, Beaten, and Detained by Castro Government

- At least 20 activists were detained in Cuba this week for planning to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
December 10, 2008 China Arrests Dissident Over Online Petition

- One of China's most prominent human rights activists has been arrested after publication of an open letter to the government from hundreds of prominent Chinese intellectuals.
December 9, 2008 Holodomor Is Ukraine's Never-Ending Trauma
December 8, 2008 Remarks before the screening of the film "Red Terror on the Amber Coast" by H.E. Audrius Bruzga, Ambassador of Lithuania
November 26, 2008 Kremlin Rules - Nationalism of Putin's Era Veils Sins of Stalin's
November 20, 2008 The First Lady of Ukraine awarded the 2008 Truman – Reagan Medal of Freedom (Embassy of Ukraine)
November 20, 2008 Letter from First Lady Laura Bush
November 20, 2008 Remarks by Under Secretary of State Paula J. Dobriansky
November 20, 2008 Letter from Kateryna Yushchenko, the First Lady of Ukraine
November 20, 2008 VOCMF Chairman Lee Edwards' Remarks for 2008 Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom Awards and Reception
November 16, 2008 Blockbuster movie refocuses the Russian mind-set
November 8, 2008 Museum in US to showcase China's forced labour camps
November 7, 2008 November 7th must be recalled not as a triumph but as a tragedy, not for its victors but because of its victims
October 31, 2008 Window on Eurasia: 'The Victory of Communism is Inevitable'
October 23, 2008 China says EU human rights award winner a criminal
October 8, 2008 North Korea: Faith and famine
October 2, 2008 Estonian Justice Minister Lang and Interior Minister Pihl acknowledged the work of Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
October 1, 2008 Support from Government of Hungary for VOCMF
September 24, 2008 Medvedev honors victims of Stalin purges
September 23, 2008 Window on Eurasia: Moscow Paper Recalls when Soviets and Nazis Marched Together
September 23, 2008 Global Museum on Communism To Go Online in Early 2009

- Polonia Today Online
September 19, 2008 Czech Republic seeks EU institute on totalitarianism
September 19, 2008 Window on Eurasia: Duma Deputies Applaud Proposal to Restore Dzerzhinsky Statue to Lubyanka Square
September 18, 2008 [Bulgarian] Parliament Denounces Atrocities Committed Under Communism
September 18, 2008 Telling the Soviet story -

"The Soviet Story" was shown in Washington, DC on Sept. 18 (see Photo Gallery)
September 15, 2008 Religious leaders end 10-day trip to U.S. - Tibetan, ex-laborer uninvited to dinner
September 13, 2008 Albania ponders opening its secret police files
September 12, 2008 Trial restarts of Poland's last communist leader Jaruzelski
September 9, 2008 Sick Or Dead? Kim's Korea No-Show
August 27, 2008 China's image - Wins gold with the world
August 24, 2008 A Spring Awakening for Human Rights

By Jiri Pehe, The New York Times
August 22, 2008 Fury over Georgia? Not in Hungary

Just 17 years after Russian tanks rolled out of Budapest, Hungarians sit back while they roll into Georgia
August 21, 2008 Amid Conflict in Georgia, Somber Memories for Czechs
August 19, 2008 'Don't forget Czechoslovakia'

John Tusa recalls the day in 1968 when the Soviets brutally ended the Prague Spring
August 17, 2008 When the worker's paradise was not
August 12, 2008 When China Starved
August 10, 2008 The Unyielding Solzhenitsyn - A Russia scholar sums up the life and work of a 20th-century master.
August 5, 2008 Alexander Solzhenitsyn - He lived not by lies.
August 4, 2008 Nobel Winner Chronicled Tyranny of Soviet Union
August 2, 2008 Communist-Era Spy Files Made Public in the Czech Republic

Nearly two decades after the fall of communism in the Czech Republic, the government has opened an archive on the country's secret police. Historians have criticized the decision.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 6, 2008 Lev E. Dobriansky, 89; Professor and Foe of Communism