Victims of Communism, Victims of Modernism

In the National Review, Richard M. Reinsch II and Paul Zepeda discuss the Victims of Communism Museum in an article titled “Victims of Communism, Victims of Modernism.”

As the authors write, “It’s easy to think of communism as an unfortunate system afflicting poor souls in the far reaches of the earth. As British historian Arnold Toynbee sardonically put it, “History is something unpleasant that happens to other people.”

Yet history is never far from us. Substantial forms of the same spirit that animated the Bolsheviks run rampant in the West today. The hesitancy of news outlets to recognize the importance of the Victims of Communism Museum has been entirely in keeping with the refusal of Western elites to reckon morally with communism’s casualties.

Read the full article here.