On Wednesday, October 22, 2025, Dr. Elizabeth Edwards Spalding, Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) and Founding Director of the Victims of Communism Museum, was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary at the Embassy of Hungary… Read More
Leading China scholars, practitioners, and policymakers will discuss Beijing’s evolving threat at Day Two of VOC’s China Forum on October 28, now at the Willard InterContinental. Join House China Select Committee Chairman Rep. John R. Moolenaar and Ranking Member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ambassador Sam Brownback, Professor Frank… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) is proud to announce Dr. Sean McMeekin as a 2025 recipient of the Lee Edwards Award for Outstanding Scholarship. VOC’s signature honor for academic achievement, the Lee Edwards Award, recognizes leading minds in… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation has spent decades documenting the horrors inflicted by communist regimes across Latin America and beyond. Today, we are overjoyed to welcome José Daniel Ferrer, a political prisoner who spent his life standing up to… Read More
It has been years since Cubans began denouncing the shipment of young men from the island to the front lines in Ukraine as cannon fodder for the Russian army. Yet what I learned in the recent security briefing given by… Read More
José Daniel Ferrer, a long-time dissident against the communist regime in Cuba, and a VOC Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom awardee, is now in the United States following action by the U.S. government “after suffering years of abuse, torture, and threats… Read More
Watch as VOC’s Matthew Robertson exposes China’s murder-for-organ industry. In this new interview with American Thought Leaders, Robertson, a China Studies Research Fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, breaks down how the CCP “created a market in the… Read More
Please join the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and Florida International University’s Cuban Research Institute, CasaCuba, and FIU in Washington D.C. Center on Tuesday, October 21 at the Victims of Communism Museum for a film screening of Cuba’s Eternal Night. What… Read More
“Two worlds collide, rival nations. It’s a primitive clash venting years of frustrations…Is it East versus West or man against man?” Thus begins Burning Heart, one of the iconic songs of Rocky IV. This autumn marks the fortieth anniversary of Sylvester Stallone’s… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation joined a group of leading civil society organizations to raise the alarm about the systemic human rights abuses of political prisoners in Hong Kong. Read the full letter, addressed to the High Commissioner Volker… Read More
