In a joint op-ed with U.S. Representative Michelle Steel in the Washington Times, VOC’s Dr. Eric Patterson argues that the United States must immediately take action to protect an innocent man from religious persecution by the Communist Party of Vietnam…. Read More
Estonia On March 13, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) Executive Director Marion Smith met Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid to lay a wreath in memory of all Estonians who suffered and were killed during the years of Soviet occupation. Crimea… Read More
In July, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) participated officially in the first-ever “Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom” hosted by the State Department in Washington, D.C. The gathering — led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Ambassador-at-large for International… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation co-sponsored “War and Refuge: Reflections on the Vietnamese Refugee Experience and Its Applicability to the Global Migration Crisis” on August 3 to help Americans learn from the Vietnamese who fled communism in the 1970s…. Read More
In 1936, when Franklin Roosevelt sought reelection to the presidency, some of his critics labeled him a “socialist.” The charge was so incendiary that the White House moved quickly to rebut it, labeling it an accusation “which no patriotic, honorable,… Read More
As the world marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, we should also remember the many dozens of people who died trying to get past it. Ida Siekmann, the wall’s first casualty,… Read More
