Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

In 1984, George Orwell describes how a totalitarian regime crushed basic freedoms and transformed society into a living nightmare controlled by party elites. Today in America, many cannot conceive of such a reality. However, this was not a mere hypothetical for Hungarians after the Iron Curtain r...

On Tuesday, October 21, the Victims of Communism Museum opened a new exhibit, The 1956 Hungarian Freedom Fight: 70 Years Later, From Revolution to Refuge. This distinctive exhibition brings together never-before-seen personal artifacts and significant historic ephemera to recount the story of Hungary’s brief but transformative 13-day revolution, its ...

Do you care about democracy and freedom around the globe? Do you envision a world free from the false hope of communism? Authorized in 1993 by a unanimous Act of Congress, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) is an educational, research, and human rights nonprofit organization devoted to commemorating the more than 100 million victims of communism around the wor...

America faces many national security problems: From China, Iran, and a revanchist Russia to the race for AI and quantum supremacy, the list is extensive. But one threat that is often overlooked is Cuba. Surely this tiny island state can’t compare to the threat of a power like China. Yet, in a recent report, the State Department

Marxist-Leninist doctrine claimed to abolish ethnic prejudice altogether. Proletarian internationalism promised a classless solidarity that made “nationality” irrelevant; communist states routinely accused capitalism of manufacturing racial division to keep workers divided. The myth that communist regimes were somehow immune to ethnic and racial persecution remains widespread...