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Washington, D.C. 20005

Communism Killed Over 100 Million

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Teaching Truth. Seeking Justice. Keeping Memory.™

The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, but communism didn’t. One hundred years after the Bolshevik Revolution, one-fifth of the world’s population still lives under single-party communist regimes in China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam.

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@VoCommunism
VOC is proud to announce the grand opening of the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, DC. Join us to teach truth, seek justice, and remember the victims.

Witness Project

We produce an award-winning short video series featuring courageous men and women who experienced life under communism and want to share their cautionary and inspiring stories. The oral history mini-documentaries are screened across the country and internationally as well as disseminated widely online and through social media.

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Rushan Abbas
Rushan Abbas is Founder and Executive Director of Campaign for Uyghurs, a non-profit dedicated to countering the Uyghur genocide.
Stephanie Salazar Landaeta
Stephanie Salazar Landaeta was abducted, imprisoned, and tortured by the Maduro regime. Her crime? Standing for democracy in socialist Venezuela.
Lech Wałęsa
Lech Wałęsa, dissident, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and former President of the Republic of Poland, sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Spalding to discuss his anti-communist legacy.
Xi Van Fleet
Watch Chinese dissident, American activist, author, and survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution Xi Van Fleet dissect China’s dissent into communism, the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party, and explore her story of the pursuit of liberty.
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The veneer of civilization is paper thin. We are its guardians, and we can never rest.
The Honorable Tom Lantos, Congressional Co-Founder

Collections

We acquire, curate, and present to the public a growing collection of museum-grade art, archives, and artifacts that tell the story of more than 100 years of communism from the intellectual, social, economic, and historical vantages. The Victims of Communism Museum, located two blocks from the White House, is our schoolhouse and the hub of our educational activity. Witness the rise of Communism, the terror of Lenin and Stalin, the growth of the tragic Gulag system, the eastward expansion of communism, and share in the inspiring stories of those fighting against the most deadly ideology man has ever created.

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The Gulag Collection
Nikolai Getman
Berlin Wall Exhibit
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Operation Pedro Pan
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PREPARING THE NEXT GENERATION

At the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, we tell the truth about communism because our vision is for a world free from the false hope of communism. Our mission is to educate this generation and future generations about the ideology, history, and legacy of communism.

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Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is an educational, research, and human rights nonprofit devoted to commemorating the more than 100 million people killed by communism around the world and to pursuing the freedom of those still living under totalitarian regimes.
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