The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) is proud to announce the election of Dr. Elida Dakoli to its Board of Trustees. Dr. Dakoli is a leading voice for freedom, an educator, and a survivor of totalitarian persecution in communist Albania due to her family’s ardent belief in liberty and… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) announced the addition of Rushan Abbas, an ardent campaigner for the human rights of the Uyghur people, to its International Advisory Council. Rushan Abbas is the Founder and Executive Director of the Campaign for… Read More
Speaking with the New York Times, VOC Senior Fellow and Director of China Studies Adrian Zenz explains how the viral Labubu dolls, sold across America by the Chinese company Pop Mart, are linked to state-imposed forced labor in China’s Xinjiang… Read More
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” This leftist shibboleth, credited to author and activist Audre Lorde, is, of course, nonsense. It’s quite possible to use valuable tools created by an oppressor to take down that oppressor. In fact, I… Read More
Chinese Communist Party pressures third-country government to detain and deport a US citizen, setting a dangerous precedent for human rights advocates WASHINGTON, DC — The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) today condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) use of the… Read More
New exclusive research from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) draws on firsthand testimony from Zhang Yabo — a former Han Chinese police officer who served in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region from 2014 to 2023 — to prove that state-imposed… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation was proud to host former EU Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, Dr. Jan Figel, and Dr. John Eibner, International President of Christian Solidarity International, along with other friends, today at the… Read More
VOC Trustee Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, co-founder and co-chair of the International Religious Freedom Summit, assessed the current state of global religious liberty this week at the 2026 IRF Summit in Washington, DC. Addressing experts and advocates for religious freedom,… Read More
In a wide-ranging conversation, Dr. Elizabeth Spalding, Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) and Founding Director of the Victims of Communism Museum, sits down with Jack Fowler at the Daily Signal to confront the forgotten truths of… Read More
This Thanksgiving, we at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation have much to be grateful for. Every day, we get to tell the stories of the heroes who fight against communism. We tell these stories to the next generation of… Read More
