Victims of Communism Memorial Ceremony: Communism Still Not Dead

The third anniversary of the Victims of Communism Memorial, on June 10, was a solemn yet beautiful ceremony.

Chairman of Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Lee Edwards (L) shakes hands with U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) (R) during a rally for jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 10, 2010. Liu was represented with an empty chair when he was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize during the presentation ceremony in Oslo, Norway. Alex Wong/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—The third anniversary of the Victims of Communism Memorial, on June 10, was a solemn yet beautiful ceremony. Flower wreathes from 31 embassies and national patriot organizations decorated the normally barren location at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and New Jersey Avenue, two blocks from the nation’s Capitol Building.

Speakers at the commemoration reminded attendees of the more than 100 million victims of communism—the suffering and death, for people living under communism, continues today.

Dr. Lee Edwards, Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, recalled the commemoration last year when House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said, “There are no names on the wall of the memorial because there is no way to list all the names of the more than 100 million victims of communism who were killed.”

Thirty-one embassies, patriot organizations, and individuals pay tribute to the more than 100 million people who lost their lives in peacetime to communist terror. The ceremony took place in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 2010. Gary Feuerberg/Epoch Times