In Memory

AT LONG LAST there will be some official American recognition of the victims of Communism. The U.S. Congress has passed, and President Clinton has signed, a public law authorizing an international memorial—for which a private organization, the Victims of Communism Memorial Fund, is raising money—to be constructed at “an appropriate location within the boundaries of the District of Columbia,” i.e., on the Mall, where millions of tourists and every American President can see it.

In their deliberate mass murder of civilians, the Communists are the blood-stained world champions. According to conservative estimates, more than 100 million people have been murdered by the Communist rulers of the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Eastern Europe since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The killing continues in countries like China today.

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Lee Edwards

Lee Edwards is founder and chairman emeritus of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

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AT LONG LAST there will be some official American recognition of the victims of Communism. The U.S. Congress has passed, and President Clinton has signed, a public law authorizing an international memorial—for which a private organization, the Victims of Communism Memorial Fund, is raising money—to be constructed at “an appropriate location within the boundaries of the District of Columbia,” i.e., on the Mall, where millions of tourists and every American President can see it.

In their deliberate mass murder of civilians, the Communists are the blood-stained world champions. According to conservative estimates, more than 100 million people have been murdered by the Communist rulers of the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Eastern Europe since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The killing continues in countries like China today.