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Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
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Communism Killed Over 100 Million

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Teaching Truth. Seeking Justice. Keeping Memory.™

The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, but communism didn’t. One hundred years after the Bolshevik Revolution, one-fifth of the world’s population still lives under single-party communist regimes in China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam.

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Witness Project

We produce an award-winning short video series featuring 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.

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The veneer of civilization is paper thin. We are its guardians, and we can never rest.
The Honorable Tom Lantos, Congressional Co-Founder

Collections

We acquire, curate, and present to the public a growing collection of museum-grade art, archives, and artifacts that tell the story of more than 100 years of communism from the intellectual, social, economic, and historical vantages.

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PREPARING THE NEXT GENERATION

At the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, we tell the truth about communism because our vision is for a world free from the false hope of communism. Our mission is to educate this generation and future generations about the ideology, history, and legacy of communism.

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