VOC Stands With Ukraine

As the savage invasion of Ukraine continues to unfold before our own eyes, the West’s united voice is condemning the horrific war waged by a corrupt tyrant against the Ukrainian people’s national sovereignty.

We at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) stand with the free nations of the worlds’ government officials, human rights organizations, religious leaders, and liberty-loving men and women across the globe in condemning outright the unprovoked, illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia’s authoritarian President, Vladimir Putin.

This invasion has already killed thousands of innocent men, women, and children, and forced over 1,000,000 civilians to flee for their lives—leaving everything behind—to seek safety in Central and Eastern Europe. VOC also stands with, and salutes, the courage of President Zelensky and the brave Ukrainian freedom fighters in their heroic defense of their homeland and their freedom. To Putin trying to bring Ukraine under Russian serfdom and tyranny, President Zelensky declared, “Nobody is going to break us. We are Ukrainians!”

With renewed expanded aggression throughout Ukraine, Putin’s actions remind us of the horrors of unchecked power, and the lingering legacy of communist tyranny which affects and informs these barbaric actions taken against the people of Ukraine.

Since Russian President Vladimir Putin took power, he’s been murdering his opponents and seizing territory in order to reverse the collapse of the Soviet Union.

From Georgia to Crimea, Putin’s wars of conquest that Russia has instigated in the Caucuses and Ukraine have had the dual purpose of stitching back together the communist United Soviet Socialist Republics and cementing his power.

Since this crisis began, VOC’s Chairman, Dr. Ed Feulner, and President & CEO, Amb. Andrew Bremberg, have been on Central Europe’s frontlines meeting with leaders of former communist countries, underscoring the need for a shared European commitment to uphold liberal democracy and the international rules-based order, as well as the even greater need for memory-focused institutions like VOC to inform the world that communist tyranny, under all its forms, still remains a threat to world order, peace, and stability. And continues today to kill innocent people adding to the over 100 million killed under communism in the 20th century.

The war in Ukraine underscores the importance of VOC’s mission to educate Americans about the continued and growing threat of communism to the nations of the free world.

VOC Chairman Dr. Ed Feulner and VOC President & CEO Amb. Andrew Bremberg meet with Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă.