By: Jesse Naiman – National Review Online (Click Here to Read Original News)
This morning, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation held a wreath-laying ceremony at their D.C. memorial to commemorate the 100 million lives lost at the hands of Communist regimes. The speakers, including Dr. Lee Edwards of the Heritage Foundation and Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R., Mich.), emphasized the need to remember Communism’s 100 million victims.
They also added that Communism remains a menace today. Dr. Yang Jianli, a Harvard University fellow and witness of Tiananmen Square in 1989, said in a written statement that Communism still plagues 20 percent of humanity. Dr. Edwards and Swedish MP Göran Lindblad both urged attendees to protest the inclusion of a bust of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin at the D-Day memorial in Bedford, Virginia.
The embassies of China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam, the five remaining Communist countries in the world, did not attend the event.