Section: Victims of Communism (USA)
What Has Communism Cost The World?
How many deaths is too many? VOC’s #CommunismKills campaign begins with the premise that each individual life taken by communism is one too many. Communism has killed over 100,000,000 people over the last 100 years and continues to do so in the countries of China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and Laos. This staggering number represents more...
How Many Have Been Killed By Communism?
How many deaths is too many? VOC’s #CommunismKills campaign begins with the premise that each individual life taken by communism is one too many. Communism has killed over 100,000,000 people over the last 100 years and continues to do so in the countries of China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and Laos. This staggering number represents more...
October 12th, 2016
CHINA Protests Outside Chinese Defense Ministry at Army CutsTHE GUARDIAN More than 1,000 protesters have walked and chanted in front of China’s defense ministry, in the latest apparent demonstration by soldiers as the world’s largest standing military modernizes and downsizes. Demonstrations on such a large scale are rare in the...
September 28th, 2016
CHINA China’s Communist Party to Hold Key Meeting in Late OctoberTHE JAPAN TIMES China’s ruling Communist Party will hold a key meeting from Oct. 24 to Oct. 27, the official Xinhua news agency has reported, a session likely to focus on revising rules of party discipline as Communist party leader Xi Jinping keeps up a battle on...
September 21st, 2016
CHINA Why China’s Experiment in Direct Democracy Is Flawed BLOOMBERG The detentions of Wukan’s protesters underscore the collapse of what rights advocates once saw as a “Wukan model” for encouraging direct elections at the village level in China’s one-party political system. Once voted into power, the inexperienced village...
Lyudmila Ulitskaya: Writings for Eternal Memory
At an April prize ceremony in Moscow organized by Memorial, a human rights group that exposes Stalin-era repression, one of Russia’s most prominent writers was attacked. Assailants threw bright green antiseptic and hurled eggs into the face of 73-year-old Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Life in today’s Russia is simply like this for the...
September 15th, 2016
CHINA China’s Communist Party Detained Christian Camp Leaders, Accused Them of Brainwashing Children Stoyan Zaimov, CHRISTIAN POST WORLD The Communist Party in China, which is leading a crackdown on Christians, detained two female Christian summer camp leaders in the northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region last month and accused them...
September 9th, 2016
CHINA A Not-So-Local DifficultyECONOMIST Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has promised a “great revival” of the Chinese nation. Presiding over the G20 summit was a perfect opportunity to show the public that he was on target. How awkward, then, that as he was doing so voters in Hong Kong were sending Mr. Xi a different—and, for the party,...
