Don’t Forget the Crimes of Communism in World War II

VOC President and CEO Dr. Eric Patterson was published in National Review this past week. The Article, Don’t Forget the Crimes of Communism in World War II, explores the aftermath of World War Two and the American relationship with Russia and other communist states ever since.

This summer, we observe the 80th commemoration of the costly Allied victory over the Axis Powers in World War II. These countries, characterized by evil, racial ideologies that justified grotesque violence, were beaten on the battlefield and accepted “unconditional surrender.” Their elite leadership faced war crimes at the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, and their inhuman savagery was documented and widely published. To this day, our schools and institutions are committed to depicting the Axis crimes: Never Again!

Yet there remains unfinished business.

In the aftermath of World War II, crimes of communism were never held to the same standard. Soviet communism was complicit in the advent of war in 1939. Its hordes unleashed havoc in Eastern and Central Europe at war’s end, brutally imposing a totalitarian imperialist order—with global consequences for the next half century.