Victims of Communism II
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation:
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a non-profit educational organization, was established by an Act of Congress to build a memorial in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the more than 100 million victims of communism….
The Public Law authorized The National Captive Nations Committee, Inc. to construct, maintain, and operate in the District of Columbia an appropriate international memorial to honor the victims of communism, tragically numbering more than 100 million. The victims were struck down in an unprecedented imperial communist holocaust through conquests, revolutions, civil wars, purges, wars by proxy, and other violent means. Totalitarian terror countenanced no challenge, from individuals, institutions, political parties, or faiths. Instead, it set out the “big lie” that a classless utopian society with human dignity for all was its goal, then cynically produced exactly the opposite in nation after nation which succumbed to its armed might, shameless intrigues, and hypocrisy.
Soviet communism’s collapse in 1991, accelerated by heroes within and outside captive nations, came only following a tragedy of lost generations. Those who died must not be forgotten, nor those who remain under communism. This memorial will assure that they are, instead, remembered forever and that the history of communist tyranny will be taught to future generations. The National Captive Nations Committee was encouraged by PL 103-199 to create an independent entity to perform this function; the independent entity created is The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
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