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 commited 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 free democracies.

Latest News

• 14.11.2008 Katyn massacre memorial unveiled in Budapest

  The local council of Budapest’s District III has named a square in Óbuda in memory of the 22,000 Poles who died in the Katyn massacre, one of the Second World War’s most appalling Stalinist atrocities. A ceremony last Thursday, when a plaque was unveiled on the wall of the Árpád Gymnasium...

• 06.11.2008 Duma Deputies Applaud Proposal to Restore Dzerzhinsky Statue to Lubyanka Square

  The removal of the statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Soviet secret police, from in front of KGB headquarters in Moscow was an iconic moment in the collapse of communism there in 1991, a step that many saw as a guarantee that the kind of repression he sponsored would never return.

• 24.10.2008 Hu Jia wins European rights prize

  One of China's most prominent human rights activists, Hu Jia, has won the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Latest Commentaries

• 24.10.2008 Hu Jia: China's enemy within

  Even under house arrest, Hu Jia continued his fearless campaign against Beijing's abuse of human rights. Yesterday he was finally jailed – but he is likely to become the poster-boy for critics of the Olympics. By Clifford Coonan

• 14.09.2008 The Problematic Pages

  To understand Vladimir Putin, we must understand his view of Russian history.

• 17.08.2008 Protests still unwelcome in Beijing

  China has set aside three parks during the Olympics, to allow people to demonstrate. But, as the BBC's Michael Bristow finds out, the parks are empty and those who apply for permission to protest are even finding themselves arrested.