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Witness Project

From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the labor camps of the Soviet Union and the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square, the Witness Project tells the tragic and powerful stories of the victims of communism, past and present. This award-winning short video series features courageous men and women who experienced life under communism and want to share their cautionary and inspiring stories. The oral history mini-documentaries are screened across the country and internationally as well as disseminated widely online and through social media.

Vladimir Kara-Murza

Vladimir Kara-Murza is a historian, dissident, and until recently, a prisoner of conscience in Russia.

Rushan Abbas is Founder and Executive Director of Campaign for Uyghurs, a non-profit dedicated to countering the Uyghur genocide.

Stephanie Salazar Landaeta

Stephanie Salazar Landaeta was abducted, imprisoned, and tortured by the Maduro regime. Her crime? Standing for democracy in socialist Venezuela.

Watch as foreign policy expert, long-time fighter of totalitarianism, and VOC’s new President and CEO, Dr. Eric Patterson discusses the threat of communism, religious liberty, and the future of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

Watch Chinese dissident, American activist, author, and survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution Xi Van Fleet dissect China’s dissent into communism, the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party, and explore her story of the pursuit of liberty.

Lech Wałęsa, dissident, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and former President of the Republic of Poland, sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Spalding to discuss his anti-communist legacy.

After Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba, the communists took over all areas of life. Max's parents feared for his safety, so he was sent to Florida on a ferry, along with thousands of other Cuban children. This mass exodus would come to be known as the Pedro Pan Operation.

Born in North Korea, Grace nearly starved to death as a child during the famine of the 1990s. After her father was tortured and died for the “crime” of trying to find food for his family in China, and her grandmother died from malnourishment, Grace’s mother knew they had to escape North Korea, no matter the cost.

Tatiana Menaker

Born in 1949, under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, Tatiana Menaker grew up in communist Soviet Union witnessing first-hand the inequalities that occurred under Stalin’s rule.

Lily Tang Williams

Lily Tang Williams was born in communist China during Mao Zedong’s rule. She witnessed Mao’s Cultural Revolution first hand as a member of the Young Pioneers.

Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is an educational, research, and human rights nonprofit devoted to commemorating the more than 100 million people killed by communism around the world and to pursuing the freedom of those still living under totalitarian regimes.

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