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Yesterday, U.S. Representatives Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (FL-25) and Joe Wilson (SC-2) joined VOC President and CEO Dr. Eric Patterson to re-launch the Congressional Victims of Communism Caucus at the U.S. Capitol. VOC is proud to partner with these distinguished leaders in… Read More

In the latest International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) exposé, China Targets: Transnational Repression Hits Home, VOC and Dr. Adrian Zenz played a critical role in bringing to light China’s expanding efforts to intimidate and suppress dissent beyond its borders. VOC shared with the investigation team… Read More

On April 24th, representatives from 16 embassies, 3 delegations, and 41 ethnic and human rights organizations gathered together with leaders of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation for the 18th Annual Roll Call of Nations Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Victims of… Read More

On Thursday April 10, U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) and Joe Wilson (SC-2) joined Dr. Eric Patterson, President and CEO of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, to re-launch the Congressional Victims of Communism Caucus. The representatives announced their priorities for the 119th Congress, from educating… Read More

On April 2, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and Hillsdale College were honored to host a book signing and discussion with Senator Tom Cotton on his must-read Seven Things You Can’t Say About China at the VOC museum. Seven Things You Can’t Say About China is… Read More

A new report from Agnes Tycner, VOC’s 2022-2023 Research Fellow in Polish Studies, examines how Pope John Paul II fought communism in Poland by restoring human dignity and renewing a lost hope. As Tycner writes in Taking Down Communism From… Read More

Before the Baltic Ministerial event at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation on March 25, CNN conducted a remote interview with Baiba Braze, the Latvian Foreign Minister, at the VOC Museum. The Minister discussed Russia’s war in Ukraine, US sanctions… Read More

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation was honored to host the Baltic Foreign Ministers for a discussion at the VOC Museum on March 25, 2025. H.E. Kęstutis Budrys, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, H.E. Baiba Braže, Minister of Foreign Affairs of… Read More

VOC Academic Council Member, Dr. Paul Kengor, recently published an article mourning the loss of President Reagan’s Chief Speech Writer, Tony Dolan, in the American Spectator. Dr. Kengor got to know Dolan while writing many books and articles on the… Read More

VOC Co-Founder Dr. Lee Edwards was posthumously honored on Monday, March 10 at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. Friends and family members of Dr. Edwards—including VOC’s President and CEO Dr. Eric Patterson and Chairman of the Board Elizabeth Spalding—were… Read More