Making the Transition to Democracy and Free Markets
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the former captive nations of Eastern and Central Europe faced a daunting challenge: Could they, after more than four decades under communism, make...
View ArticleSlain Dissident’s Daughter Demands Answers
This week at Georgetown University the daughter of late Cuban human rights activist Oswaldo Payá spoke about her father’s legacy on the third-year anniversary of his death. Rosa Maria Payá declared...
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The Crimean Tatars as Victims of Communism (Part II)
Editor’s note: This article is part 2 of a 2-part series exploring the Tatar deportation and Crimean history. The full report can be read at VOC’s website and part 1 can be found here. Sürgün The...
View ArticleUpdated: Congress Pushes for “Oswaldo Paya Way”
On Monday of last week, the Cuban government had its fifteen minutes of fame. At a ceremony attended by dignitaries and journalists, Cuban guardsmen raised the flag of their country for the first time...
View ArticleStanding Athwart History Yelling Stop: Raymond Aron vs. The Marxist...
“J.P. Sartre has condemned the intervention in Hungary, but he continues to see no other road to salvation but that of Socialism: this monster all spattered in blood is none the less Socialism.”...
View ArticleRemembering the Anti-Communist Hero, Robert Conquest
Some of the most famous intellectuals of the West, including the French writer and Nobel Laureate Andre Gide and American conservatism’s Whittaker Chambers, turned to communism in the 1920s and 1930s...
View ArticleVietnamese Youth Go On Hunger Strike
Despite the collapse of the Berlin Wall and Soviet Union, Vietnam remains one of the five communist countries left in the world. Much like other communist countries, the Vietnamese government...
View ArticleSandinista Revolution: The Cold War’s Guerilla Warfare
The 1979 revolution in Nicaragua by the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional was seen by the world as “the new road to guerrilla warfare”[1] that would lead the way for the rest of Central America....
View ArticleKhmer Rouge Tribunal: Before and After
The Khmer Rouge Tribunal was established in 2003 as a joint effort by the United Nations and the Royal Government of Cambodia to try those involved with crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge regime.
View ArticleAbandoning Team Castro
Today, the U.S. flag flew over an American embassy in Cuba for the first time in 54 years. After the opening ceremony, Secretary of State John Kerry was anxious to walk through the streets of an open...
View ArticleAbandoned By The Soviets
From towns to military bases, this infrastructure was left behind after the Soviet Union collapsed. Now, they are just ghosts that depict what life under the USSR was like.
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T.S. 1989: Taylor Swift or Tiananmen Square?
Taylor Swift’s 1989 World Tour is the pop show of 2015. It has topped this year’s Billboard Hot Tours chart, and so far it has grossed $86.2 million—counting only her 20 U.S. performances. The tour...
View Article10 Absurd Things That Actually Happened in North Korea
When it comes to North Korea, it’s tough to get away with saying, “You’re not going to believe this.” Since the communist regime took over the northern half of the Korean peninsula in 1945, the Kim...
View Article5 Lenin Statues That Make You Wonder ‘Why?’
All around North America there are statues and monuments dedicated to heroes of freedom and democracy—Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson, for instance, adorn the capitol city of Washington, D.C., and...
View ArticleMongolia’s Fight for Freedom
Today Mongolia commemorates the victims of political repression, who suffered under a brutal regime that remained in power for more than 70 years. Under this communist dictatorship more than 37,000...
View ArticleVenezuelan Opposition Leader Unjustly Sentenced to Prison
Yesterday, Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López was sentenced to 13 years and nine months in prison. After being detained since February of 2014, he was found guilty of conspiracy, arson,...
View ArticleThe Witness Still Stands: The Life and Lessons of Whittaker Chambers
The life of Whittaker Chambers was as astonishing as it was complex. Throughout the course of his life, he was a communist, a conservative, a spy, an informant, an editor of Time Magazine, an editor of...
View ArticleWhat You Should Know Before Xi Jinping’s First State Visit
President Xi Jinping has been depicted as China’s most powerful leader since Mao. This week he travels to Washington for his first official state visit and the White House plans to welcome the Chinese...
View ArticleLet Freedom Ring in China
During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first official state visit to the U.S., pro-democracy protesters rallied in Washington’s Lafayette Square in front of the White House.
View ArticleLeviathan’s Shadow Looms Large, But The Light Behind Is Brighter
Review of Jay Nordlinger’s Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators (Encounter Books, 336 pages, $25.99) Is it possible to over-dwell on dictators and their children?...
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