On August 20-26, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation‘s (VOC) Dr. Murray Bessette and Kristina Olney, Directors of Academic Programs and Government Relations, completed a weeklong tour of the Baltics to support our European partners in public education and remembrance. Vilnius,… Read More
On August 23, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) acquired the official archives of the International Black Ribbon Day Committee, a civic organization that successfully advocated to establish an international day of remembrance for the victims of totalitarian regimes…. Read More
On June 12-22, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) hosted a multimedia exhibit and dual concert event called Free2Be in Washington D.C.’s historic Dupont Underground, featuring dissident art, music, and film viewed by hundreds of tourists and locals throughout… Read More
Dr. Richard Pipes — scholar of Soviet Russia, Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom laureate, and longtime member of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation‘s Academic Council — was born to Jewish parents in Poland and escaped to the US in 1940,… Read More
On a cold night in Petrograd, just over one hundred years ago, a small group of Red Guards seized the Winter Palace and installed the world’s first communist government. The Bolshevik Revolution marked the beginning of a century in which… Read More
Amid the chaos of Charlottesville, two specters from the previous century’s darkest hours have re-emerged. Alongside the well-publicized Nazi symbols on full display during the “Unite the Right” rally, so too were Communist hammers and sickles brandished by the opposing… Read More
One hundred years ago this month, a train pulled by locomotive No. 293 arrived at the Finland Station in Petrograd (St. Petersburg). Though it was late at night, a large crowd waited waving red flags and flowers. Within a sealed… Read More
On Saturday, 15,000 Russian troops, 200 tanks and trucks, and 150 airplanes and helicopters will parade through Red Square in the largest military spectacle held in Moscow since the collapse of the USSR. Songs will be sung. Speeches will be… Read More
Seventy-five years ago this week, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a pact of non-aggression and cooperation. The sinister 1939 pact (along with its secret provisions) between Hitler and Stalin and negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and… Read More
