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"In less than two years, the museum moved from an 'inspired idea' to a world-class Internet platform that will help educate this and future generations about the history, philosophy and legacy of communism. The museum has the potential to reach and teach people every hour of every day, regardless of where they are in the world."

Lee Edwards, Ph.D., Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, will participate in a conference on History, Memory, and Politics in Eastern and Central Europe on Monday, August 23, 2010, at the Munk Centre at the University of Toronto.

The Munk Centre at the University of Toronto will host a conference on History, Memory and Politics in Eastern and Central Europe on Monday, August 23, 2010.

Relatives and friends gathered in the Congressional Cemetary, in Washington, D.C., on July 23, 2010 to pay tribute to the life and legacy of Tom Lantos.

Ukraine Exhibit is now online at the Global Museum on Communism.

Dr. Lee Edwards responds to the decision by Communist Cuba to release 52 political prisoners.

As part of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation's national campaign to remove the bust of Joseph Stalin from the D-Day Memorial, a citizen's petition to the Foundation and to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is now posted.

Dr. Lee Edwards, chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, responds to the upcoming dedication of a statue of Joseph Stalin at the D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia.

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation extends its deepest condolences to the Polish people and the families of President Lech Kaczynski, First Lady Maria Kaczynski, Anna Walentynowicz and those traveling with them to memorialize the victims of the Katyn Massacre.

Thirty years ago, a trade union forced the Communist Party into a retreat that marked the beginning of the end of Soviet Europe. Solidarity's legacy - for Poland and beyond - mustn't be forgotten.

On August 23, the second international Memorial Day honoring the victims of Communism, Nazism and other totalitarian regimes was organized by the IICC/UOK in Stockholm. The day of remembrance was inaugurated by the Swedish Minister of Education, Mr. Jan Björklund, and was attended by participants from over 30 countries.

Thousands of Cuban health professionals have deserted world-wide.

The latest attempt at rewriting history came with a new textbook, "History of Russia 1917-2009."

Complete text of the House Resolution.

At sunset on July 19, 2010 Greek Americans gathered to offer tribute to Greek victims of Communism in front of the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington DC.

"The scheduled release of those arrested in a March 2003 crackdown against pro-democracy activists on the island was brokered by the country's archbishop, Cardinal Jaime Ortega, with help from visiting Spanish diplomats."

"...he is one of the few "disappeared" Chinese known to the public. More than 400,000 prisoners are said to be languishing in the "black jails," labor camps and detention centers of China."

"...the wholesale destruction of Old Kashgar and the entire Uighur culture merits not a word."

National D-Day Memorial honors a communist monster

A controversial sculpture of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin drew international outrage when it was unveiled earlier this month at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va. Now, the D-Day Memorial Foundation faces opposition right in its own backyard.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi laid a wreath at the Victims of Communism Memorial on June 24th.

The most fragile thing about the North Korean regime is the structure of deception that supports it.

One hails the end of the human bondage of the Evil Empire, while the other champions the birth and rebirth of human liberty, as achieved by the men and women of our armed forces.

The third anniversary of the Victims of Communism Memorial, on June 10, was a solemn yet beautiful ceremony. Flower wreathes from 31 embassies and national organizations decorated the location, two blocks from the nation's Capitol Building.

Anna Walentynowicz's death is a great loss for two nations, Poland and Ukraine, which had become very dear to her in the last years of her life.

Thousands of Poles filled a vast sunbathed square in Warsaw for the beatification of Jerzy Popieluszko, a charismatic priest tortured and killed in 1984 by communist Poland's secret police for supporting Lech Walesa's Solidarity freedom movement.

Today is the 66th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

A bust of dictator Joseph Stalin has been placed at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford despite public protest over its presence.

Do left-wing European journalists and politicians share the blame for the 50-year duration of the Castro dictatorship? Cuban human rights campaigner Armando Valladares seems to think so.

In an interview with the Izvestia newspaper published two days before Russia marks the 65th anniversary of victory in World War II, Medvedev said the crimes of wartime dictator Joseph Stalin could never be forgiven.

"Russia needs a clear and unequivocal apology to the Polish people for what was done 70 years ago," said Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., at a conference of scholars, experts and analysts from Poland, Russia and the U.S. as well as members of Congress who met at the Library of Congress.

Many of the peoples in these countries will be able to use this site to learn more about the national resistance in their past than many of them have up to now.

America's more than 1.5 million Vietnamese-Americans this week will mourn the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the Republic of [South] Vietnam.

VOCMF Board Member Dr. Michael Szporer remembers Anna Walyntynowicz. Ms. Walyntynowicz was tragically killed in the Polish President's plane crash on April 10, 2010.

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation has posted this extraordinary documentary about the origins and impact of communism.

Anna Walentynowicz, a Solidarity activist whose firing started the Gdansk shipyard strike in 1980 and helped spread trade-union activism against the communist regime in Poland, died in the plane crash in Russia on Saturday. She was honored by the VOCMF with the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom in 2005.

was a foe of communism

This past week, the Cuban regime stepped-up its repressive tactics and several leaders of Cuba's opposition movement have been beaten and arrested.

Ethnic Korean Ko Jong-mi's family was lured from Japan to North Korea, forbidden to return, when she was a toddler. Her misery and her mother's painful regret inspired Ko to find a way back.

Four imprisoned for advocating freedom of expression and a multi-party system for Vietnam.

Hour long special will examine roots of communism and discuss the Ukrainian Holodomor, a special look at the iconic fashion symbol of Che Guevara, Mao Zedong's 70-million victims and more. Jan. 22, 5pm EST on FoxNews.

The trial of leading human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh and three other democracy activists for subversion has begun in Vietnam.

Wei Jingsheng, now in the U.S., represents those back in his native land whom we cannot hear from - whom we may never hear from, if the regime there has its way.

Officials said the administration has raised concerns about cybersecurity and Internet freedom with China before.

Nostalgia for the Soviet past, which is spreading like "an epidemic" through Russian society, reflects the dissatisfaction of most Russians with the current situation.

Power of private markets appears to weaken leader's near absolute authority even as Kim Jong Il's latest surprise currency evaluation wiped out personal wealth and has incited a backlash.

as a young man, Sevcenko persuaded George Orwell to collaborate with him on a Ukrainian translation of "Animal Farm" for distribution to refugees.