Mission

The purpose of the Foundation for the Investigation of Communist Crimes is to diffuse knowledge and increase international understanding of the crimes against humanity committed by violent communist regimes across the globe in different times. The goal of the Foundation is to dismiss once and  for all a shockingly common and ubiquitous illusion that any ‘semi-good’ violent regimes – yet based on the violation of human rights, torture and constant threat on life – ever existed or could exist.
Communist crimes need to be understood globally, and they must be condemned the same way Nazi crimes were. In pursuing its mission, the Foundation gathers data regarding Communist crimes and Red terror across the world, provides grants for scholarly research, disseminates information globally via modern communication channels, and supports experts advising the last remaining communist regimes in their transformation to democracies.

Latest News

• 18.06.2009 Review: Smuggled memoir of Communist leader under house arrest deepens insight into China's strainings toward democracy

  Until now, the key books on modern China have been "The Tiananmen Papers," a leaked account of how an aging, frightened Deng Xiaoping bungled his way into a bloody crackdown two decades ago, and "Mao: The Unknown Story," an explosive biography by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday.

• 17.06.2009 Global Museum on Communism launches!

  Truth will penetrate the walls of tyranny in communist China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and North Korea with the launch of the online Global Museum on Communism," said Dr. Lee Edwards, Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

• 14.06.2009 National Day of Mourning today in Estonia for victims of Soviet deportations

  As European democracies celebrate the 20th anniversary of their liberation from communism and the Soviets, Moscow seeks to restore its dominance over former satellites. Rewriting Russian history is part of this plan. The Putinist notion of a progressive Soviet system in the past is designed to...

Latest Commentaries

• 16.06.2009 Laima Veckalne’s Story: A Tale of Forgotten Soviet Crimes

  IN 1940, the U.S.S.R. invaded and occupied Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. This month marks the sixtieth anniversary of the first mass deportations from the Baltic states, when the Soviets arrested more than 60,000 people in June 1941 and sent them to prisons and labor camps in Northern Russia...

• 03.06.2009 Postcards from Hell

  In Russia in 1929, two families flee for their lives. One catches the last train to freedom in the West, but the other narrowly misses it, to face decades in prison camps. Their letters — the largest cache of family correspondence to emerge from Stalin’s gulag — reveal their tragic fight...

• 01.06.2009 CUBA: CHANGES? WHAT CHANGES?

  The Obama regime may be reaching out to Raúl Castro, but it is unlikely any real reform will emerge for ordinary Cubans, writes Ena Lucía Portela