The VOC Museum teaches the violent truth about communism. That's why we are never surprised when Marxists threaten us and vandalize our schoolhouse—they want to stop our mission. Will you help us stand for freedom and educate the next generation on the evils of communism? Your support will be doubled now until midnight on May 13 thanks to a generous $100,000 matching challenge from two freedom lovers who understand that we must fight for truth against the lies of communism. Will you help us meet the $100,000 match with a donation today? Learn more and donate at: victimsofcommunism.org/lee-a…

Fidel Castro was not, in fact, the hero that American socialists make him out to be today. He was a ruthless dictator who killed and tortured his own civilians. This is what communism looks like: not a utopian society with “free healthcare,” but this.

Cuba's medical brigades are a system of modern-day slavery masquerading as humanitarian assistance. Thank you @WHAAsstSecty Juan Pablo Segura for exposing Havana's crimes. The communist tyrants holding Cuba hostage have lived in luxury while forcing everyone else to survive in poverty and oppression for too long. Learn more about the tragic reality of Cuba’s medical brigades via VOC's Witness Project documentary. Watch: piped.video/y-JULgF5I6Y?si=snHe…

In 1979, two families built a hot air balloon in secret to escape communist oppression in East Germany. They risked everything for a chance at freedom. Witness their harrowing story at VOC's upcoming Anti-Communist Film Festival. Reserve your spot today: victimsofcommunism.org/anti-…

Later today, Archbishop Fulton Sheen will become the first American-born bishop to be beatified by the Catholic Church. Archbishop Sheen understood the threat of communism, and he was not afraid to call out this evil ideology. He boldly declared that “Communism is the scavenger of decaying civilizations.”

In 1959, Nixon and Khrushchev faced off in a model American kitchen in Moscow. The “Kitchen Debate” became a symbolic clash between two visions of the future: a free society where prosperity could be pursued by individuals, and a communist system built on centralized control. The debate exposed the lies of a totalitarian system that claimed to promote a workers' paradise but instead elevated the whims of the elite above all.

The Berlin Wall was a physical reminder of the failure of communism. The East German regime knew its hold on power was built on oppression, surveillance, and a giant wall holding a nation captive. No amount of propaganda could make communism compete with freedom.

Watch as VOC's Ken Pope joins Natalya Murakhver to discuss the origins of communism, the Berlin Wall, and the present-day threat of socialism in America. restorechildhood.substack.co…

RT @VoCommunism: Remember the Victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

Remember the Victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

It was an honor to host @EnesFreedom at the Victims of Communism Museum to discuss the crimes of the Chinese Communist Party, the Uyghur genocide, and why the free world must stand up to totalitarian regimes, regardless of the cost.

Pleased to publish a conceptual framework for assessing and measuring state-imposed forced labor (SIFL) across its global forms. To my knowledge this is the first effort of its kind, in a field that has left SIFL substantially undertheorized. "Architecture of Coercion" aims to do four things: 1. Develop a systematic way to conceptualize all global forms of SIFL based on ILO standards. 2. Examine previous ILO efforts to conceptualize SIFL and why they fall short. 3. Introduce the SIFL Categorization Matrix, a novel analytical tool that differentiates SIFL coercion mechanisms from state purposes. 4. Elaborate a three-pillar SIFL assessment methodology to assess: (i) Policy Content and Framing, (ii) State Capacity for Implementation, and (iii) Evidence of Implementation. Central to the framework is the claim that all forms of SIFL can be categorized by four mechanisms through which labor is exacted: - Internment or Imprisonment. Labor in prisons, camps, or re-education centers, where detention and confinement are the primary means of coercion. - Coercive Mobilization. Non-internment mobilization such as labor transfers or mandatory harvesting. - Compulsory Service Systems. Abuse of conscription or mandatory national service, where the legal obligation to serve is exploited to compel non-exempt work. - Compulsory Production and Procurement Systems. Typically agricultural, enforced through mandatory quotas and sub-market procurement. Two concepts do much of the analytical work in the framework: The article argues that conceptualization and measurement should focus primarily on mechanism, because mechanisms are more durable than the purposes states pursue through them: camps, transfer systems, and procurement regimes require infrastructure, personnel, and budgets that take years to build and cannot be dismantled at will. A state may recast forced labor transfers as poverty alleviation, vocational training, or counter-extremism without altering a single element of the apparatus that carries them out. Much remains to be developed, particularly on the measurement of involuntariness where states engineer participation rather than compel it visibly. I hope the framework offers a starting point for that work. The article is open access in the Journal of Human Trafficking, and I welcome comments and critique. (Article link the first comment below)

The Soviet Union invaded Poland on September 17, 1939. Wanda Wos Lorenc would have to survive both Nazi occupation and communist oppression before she could see freedom again. Witness her story.