First Anniversary of the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C.

The Victims of Communism Museum (https://victimsofcommunism.org/) in Washington, District of Columbia, recently celebrated its first anniversary. I have posted about the Victims of Communism Memorial established in the 1990s by the United States to document victims of Marxism and Communism in all its bloody forms. The Museum is near the original location of the memorial. The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation that maintains the facility engages in advocacy for human rights and opposition to Communist regimes, such as Communist China, as well as to Russian Federation tyrant Vladimir Putin, a former Soviet intelligence officer who is nostalgic about the Communist era and is trying to restore the Soviet Union. The Victims of Communism Museum awarded its Dissident Human Rights Award this year to the people of Ukraine, who are heroically resisting the Russian aggression against the former Soviet Republic. The popular Museum also conducts programs, hosts speakers, and develops curriculum, for which there is encouraging demand, lest people forget or younger people never learn of the horrors of a totalitarian tyranny that has killed tens of millions of people and left more than a billion unfree even to this day. The principles of equality, liberty and representative government must be maintained vigilantly against the ideology of Communism and other totalitarian threats.