Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Opens Online Museum

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOCMF) has recently opened an online museum called the Global Museum on Communism (www.globalmuseumoncommunism.org). The VOCMF had placed a memorial to the victims of Communism in the District of Columbia, which was dedicated by President George W. Bush in 2007. Although it had received federal approval for the memorial, the VOCMF is funded by private donations. The VOCMF will continue to raise funds for a "brick and mortar" museum, but for now the online museum provides a valuable resource for those interested in learning about the atrocities perpetuated in order to advance Communism.

The VOCMF memorializes the tens of millions of people killed by Communists and honors those heroes who resisted Communism. Since the official collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in 1989, the collective memory of westerners about the horrors committed by Communists has begun to fade. The continued existence of several Communist regimes, as well as active Marxist-Leninist guerrilla or terrorist movements around the world, make it important to understand the evil nature of Communism.