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
Ken Pope, VOC’s CEO, and Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar, representing Florida’s 27th District, argue that Congress should act on the growing communist threat in America’s backyard. Read their joint op-ed published by Fox News below: “The Cuban regime has allegedly… Read More
For the free world, 1989 is remembered as the Year of Miracles as the Berlin Wall fell and the facade of the Soviet Union began to crumble. But in China, 1989 went in a tragically different direction.
Captain Witold Pilecki was an intelligence officer, a cavalry officer, a gentleman, farmer, a community activist, a talented artist, a loving husband, and a doting father. Oxford’s M. R. D. Foot, a British historian and military intelligence officer, called him… Read More
In a new Foreign Policy op-ed, VOC’s Dr. Adrian Zenz argues that China’s use of coercive labor is getting less visible, but more intense. As Dr. Zenz writes, “Beijing has repeatedly claimed that there is ‘no forced labor’ in Xinjiang…. Read More