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VOC’s Eric Patterson and Ken Pope argue that the United States is locked in a new Cold War-style ideological struggle with our adversaries — authoritarianism and communism versus the Western liberal order — and that we need to catch up,… Read More

In the 20th century, Venezuela quickly became one of the wealthiest countries in Latin America after discovering vast oil reserves. That all changed when Hugo Chávez seized power. Elected democratically following a failed military coup, Chávez moved to entrap Venezuela in his socialist system of corruption, greed, and clientelism — or, as he called it, the “Bolivarian Revolution.”

On March 20, VOC’s Ethan Gutmann and Matthew Robertson will testify before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CEEC) in a hearing entitled “Stopping the Crime of Organ Harvesting—What More Must Be Done?”

On the latest episode of VOC’s Profiles In Freedom, Amb. Andrew Bremberg sits down with a foreign policy expert, a long-time fighter of totalitarianism, and VOC’s new President and CEO, Dr. Eric Patterson.

Groundbreaking research by VOC’s Matthew P. Robertson on China’s organ harvesting industry has prompted a new expose by The Telegraph that shows “Oxford University organised training programmes attended by Chinese transplant doctors facing allegations of illegally harvesting human organs.” As… Read More

On March 10, C-SPAN covered VOC’s 50th anniversary panel discussion of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago. The event explored the book’s impact and anti-totalitarianism legacy with featured speakers Dr. Lee Edwards, Dr. Daniel J. Mahoney, Dr. Elizabeth Spalding, Dr. Flagg… Read More

Research from VOC’s Dr. Adrian Zenz was highlighted in a recent Politico article on the Uyghur forced labor practices still being carried out in Xinjiang even after its global exposure.

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation today announces Dr. Eric Patterson as VOC’s new President and CEO.

On March 7th the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation will commemorate the speeches of two giants of western leadership: Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom and President Ronald Reagan of the United States. Winston Churchill’s famed “Iron Curtain” speech on March 5th, 1946, in Fulton, Missouri, officially titled “The Sinews of Peace,” ushered in the Cold War and made the term a household phrase.

VOC’s Director of Government Relations, Karina Lipsman, writes for The Telegraph, on Vladimir Putin’s autocratic rule, Alexei Navalny’s death, and the United States’ duty of leadership.