On October 27-28, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation held its 11th annual China Forum, convening leading scholars and policymakers to discuss the evolving threats from the Chinese Communist Party. This year’s Forum featured five keynote speakers, four panels, three members… Read More
On Wednesday, October 22, 2025, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation hosted its first Ladies Night at the Museum, a discussion and reception featuring VOC Chairman, Dr. Elizabeth Spalding, and Chinese Cultural Revolution survivor, Xi Van Fleet. Opening remarks were… Read More
Class warfare. We’ve not heard the term much in recent years, even as the most aggressive neo-Marxist currents have been expressed via critical race theory and gender ideologies. But the political platforms of New York City’s radical Zohran Mamdani and his… Read More
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
