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
On April 9, VOC Senior Fellow in China Studies, Ethan Gutmann, was featured at a Hudson Institute event called “New Evidence of China’s Forced Organ Harvesting and a Proposed US Response” alongside Nina Shea, VOC Advisory Council Member and Senior… Read More
Join the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the Catholic Information Center (CIC), and the Saint Gabriel Institute for a film screening of No Priests Left. Presented by the Catholic Information Center, No Priests Left, explores the persecution of Catholic priests under Russian… Read More
History The Victims of Communism Congressional Caucus is a bipartisan initiative in Congress dedicated to ensuring that the voices of those silenced under communist regimes are never forgotten—and that those still suffering are not ignored. By commemorating the estimated 100 million… Read More
America was very powerful in the late eighteenth century and influential enough forpeople, worldwide to incorporate notions of the Declaration of Independence into their owncountries. Finalized on July 4th, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was and is an importantdocument. It… Read More
Since the Declaration of Independence was written 250 years ago, it has inspired nationalist movements and those working to extend the rights of man to all. From Simon Bolivar in Latin America to Gandhi in India, many have taken inspiration… Read More
On Thursday, March 26, Diana Nausėdienė, the First Lady of Lithuania, visited the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Nausėdienė, her delegation, and officials from the Embassy of Lithuania toured the Victims of Communism Museum, led by VOC Trustee Ambassador Aldona… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s Balkan Studies Initiative aims for the first time in VOC history to cover the tragedy that was communist repression in the Balkan peninsula. The Balkans—and their complex experience with communism—remain severely understudied in the… Read More
Even a most perfunctory look at the history of warfare will tell you that throughout the course of civilization, from primitive man in the Bronze Age to the end of the twentieth century, and now in our twenty-first century, armed… Read More
