Teaching the Truth About Communism

VOC CEO Ken Pope considers how and why we must teach the truth about communism in a new op-ed published in The American Conservative.

As Ken Pope writes, “I still remember it like it was yesterday, those famous words spoken by President Ronald Reagan on June 12, 1987 at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” It was a momentous day for Russians, Germans, Americans, and the entire world. We hoped we had seen the last of its kind—both the wall and the regime it represented.

Communism, however, was far from dead; to this day it still holds 1.5 billion people captive in China, Cuba, North Korea, Laos, and Vietnam.”

Read the full article in The American Conservative.