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

• 05.01.2009 Beijing strikes at dissidents

  Clampdown on Charter 08's call for democracy also aims to gag parents of tainted milk children and Sichuan quake victims

• 28.11.2008 Window on Eurasia: Some Russians -- Christians and Communists -- Venerate Icon of Stalin

  Vienna, November 27 – An Orthodox priest in a town near St. Petersburg has sparked controversy by putting up an icon showing the figure of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, with some believers and Communists viewing this as simple justice and others as an indication that many Russians have lost...

• 28.11.2008 Ukraine to remove 10 Soviet-era monuments from Kiev streets

  KIEV, November 27 (RIA Novosti) - Authorities in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev have decided to take down ten Soviet-era monuments, including eight statues of Vladimir Lenin, a municipal official said on Thursday.
  
  

Latest Commentaries

• 23.12.2008 Russia rewriting Josef Stalin's legacy

  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — At first, the purpose behind the midday raid at a human-rights group's office here was murky. Police, some clad in masks and camouflage, cut the electricity to Memorial's offices and demanded to know if any drugs or guns were kept on the premises.

• 26.11.2008 Our duty

  Jüri Luik calls for the establishment of a commission for the investigation of Communist crimes in Europe

• 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