VOC Named Educational Resource in Crucial Communism Teaching Act

The Crucial Communism Teaching Act was introduced this week in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. This bill makes curricular materials available through the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) to help educate high school students about the dangers of communism, and how such systems are contrary to the founding principles of freedom and democracy that we cherish in the United States. 

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is honored to be featured as the educational resource for this much-needed effort. Between the fourth edition of VOC’s curriculum, Communism: Its Ideology, Its History, and Its Legacy, our free online curriculum, teacher certification course, Witness Project documentary series, and the VOC Museum in Washington, D.C., we are proud to offer educational resources for teachers and students to study the criminal past and ongoing tyranny communism. 

“Today, American students are increasingly unaware of communist regimes’ brutal history and continuing oppression. Fortunately, it’s not too late to right this wrong—the Crucial Communism Teaching Act is a much-needed effort to ensure that our students learn the facts about the deadliest ideology the world has ever seen and to ensure that the crimes of communism are never forgotten,” said Dr. Eric Patterson, President and CEO of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

Introduced in the House by Representative María Elvira Salazar, the bill was co-sponsored by 13 members of Congress. In the Senate, the bill was put forward by Senators John Kennedy, Rick Scott, and Eric Schmitt.

“Communism is a cancer, and it always produces the same results: oppression, suffering and death. We must teach the next generation of Americans the threat communism poses to liberty and justice for innocent people around the world,” said Sen. John Kennedy. 

For press inquiries, please contact Michal Harmata at  michal.harmata@victimsofcommunism.org or (202) 629-9500.