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June 4, 2012 JUNE 12 WREATH LAYING CEREMONY TO HONOR THE VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM WORLDWIDE; TRIBUTE TO DONALD RUMSFELD AND GULAG EXHIBIT PREVIEW

Donald Rumsfeld, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense, and Annette Lantos, Chairman of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, will headline a list of speakers and guests from Capitol Hill and Washington's diplomatic corps at a June 12, 2012 10:00 a.m. EDT wreath laying ceremony at the Victims of Communism Memorial
February 17, 2012 Former Leader of Belarus Stanislau Shushkevich to Receive Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom

Presentation to be made in March

Articles

December 11, 2012 Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo's Imprisonment a Painful Reminder of China's Dictatorship
November 21, 2012 Solzhenitsyn's One Day: The book that shook the USSR

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's classic novel, was published 50 years ago this month. A short, simply-told tale about a prisoner trying to survive the Gulag - the Soviet labour camp system - it is now regarded as one of the most significant books of the 20th Century.
November 20, 2012 24-year-old Tibetan Dies after Immolation, Toll reaches 76
October 24, 2012 "56 at 56" Gala Dinner Commemorates Hungary's Historic Commitment to the Cause of Freedom

On October 18, Hungarians and Americans gathered to remember the Revolution and Freedom Fight of 1956 and celebrated 90 years of diplomatic relations between Hungary and the United States at the U.S. Institute of Peace
October 24, 2012 International Remembrance of Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo

Initiatives for China called for the release of jailed 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiabo and marked the second anniversary of Liu's receipt of the prize by hosting coordinated, silent commemorations in both Washington D.C. and Budapest, Hungary.

August 27, 2012 Baltic and German Foreign Ministers meeting in Riga on Common European Memory
August 24, 2012 Europe still split on totalitarian crimes on Black Ribbon Day
August 23, 2012 Bulgaria Honors Victims of Communist Repressions
August 23, 2012 Victims of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes commemorated on August 23rd reported by the Estonian Embassy to the United States
August 23, 2012 Canadian Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism's Speech on Black Ribbon Day 2012
August 23, 2012 Canadian Prime Minister's Black Ribbon Day Speech 2012
August 23, 2012 Polish President Champions Museum of Communist Crimes
August 15, 2012 The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz

Witold Pilecki is not well known in the U.S., but he is a hero in Poland.
July 13, 2012 At Checkpoint Charlie, a battle over visions
June 30, 2012 The real Che was no hero

By Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, VOCMF 2011 Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom recipient: "The democratically elected council in Galway can ignore the objections of a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, but it cannot ignore the truth of history. The planned monument only spreads the myth of Guevara, and rewrites a disturbing history that must not be forgotten."
June 12, 2012 Remarks by Lee Edwards on June 12, 2012
June 12, 2012 Remarks by Reggie Littlejohn on June 12, 2012
March 27, 2012 Why Socialist Cuba Prohibits Social Media

Columnist Mary O'Grady on her interview with Marco Rubio at the Heritage Foundation.
March 26, 2012 Stanislaw Shushkevich: Medal for a Hero
March 25, 2012 March 25, 2012 - Anniversary of 1949 Baltic deportations and Belarus Freedom Day [Photo Gallery]
February 22, 2012 Review: NO ENEMIES, NO HATRED: Selected Essays and Poems by Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo is in the Jinzhou Prison in the Liaoning Province of China serving an 11-year prison term. His "crime:" drafting and promoting Charter 08, a manifesto that demands human rights and democratic reforms in China.

February 15, 2012 Xi Jinping Comes to Washington

According to Hudson Institute visiting fellow Lianchao Han, Xi's visit may give some in Washington high expectations for smoother U.S.-Chinese relations during his tenure; but that will be just an illusion.