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Op-eds

On the anniversary of Victory Day in North Korea, VOC’s Director of Academic Programs, Bob Williams, looks back on his deployment to South Korea and examines the brutal truth of the North Korean communist regime.

Accepting VOC’s 2023 Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom, Fr. Georgi Edelstein writes, “the Communist system has not changed in principle during the last 105 years. While temporary changes may occur…in essence it remains the same. To quote Lenin, ‘A blue devil is no different from a yellow one.’”

Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Chairman of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition Between the US and the CCP, delivered a video address at VOC’s 2023 Captive Nations Summit in which he argued that there can be no equivalency between freedom and communism—we are the good guys.

Dr. Lee Edwards, explores in Fox News the history and importance of National Captive Nations week, and remembering those victims suffering around the world: “One presidential proclamation in particular infuriates the communists because it tells the truth about communism: Moscow… Read More

On July 11, 2021, nationwide protests across Cuba marked a before and after point in the island’s history. Tragically, the free world failed to support the Cuban people against the regime’s onslaught. John Suarez argues that it may not be too late to do the right thing.

“Together, we will unravel the CCP’s genocidal nightmare, revealing the stark truth and restoring the Uyghur people’s dignity—a future free from oppression and the haunting echoes of the Ürümqi Massacre,” writes Uyghur activist Arslan Hidayat.

How Poland Challenged Communism in 1956 At 6:00 in the morning on June 28, 1956, workers walked out of the Cegielski engineering plant in Poznań, Poland, ignoring the sirens that signaled the start of the day. Under excessive quotas, poor… Read More

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… Read More

VOC Chairman Dr. Elizabeth Edwards Spalding explores how the Victims of Communism Museum educates through teaching history so we can live not by lies in The American Spectator. Dr. Spalding writes, “As Václav Havel foretold, the collapse of communism in… Read More

The following remarks were delivered by Bhuchung K. Tsering, VOC’s 2023 Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom recipient. Under the leadership of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (and his North America Representative Dr. Namgyal Choedup is here among us today) all Tibetans… Read More