{"id":887485,"date":"2021-10-16T16:14:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T20:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=887485"},"modified":"2021-10-16T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T20:14:30","slug":"educating-students-about-the-victims-of-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/educating-students-about-the-victims-of-communism\/","title":{"rendered":"Educating Students About The Victims Of Communism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feducating-students-about-the-victims-of-communism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=887485&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Many Americans today assume that the threat of Communism subsided with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But \u201cWe continue to see Communist and socialist regimes pop up and spread not only in Latin America \u2013 for example, in Venezuela and Nicaragua \u2013 but around the world,\u201d says Ambassador Andrew Bremberg, president and CEO of the <a href=\"https:\/\/victimsofcommunism.org\/\">Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation<\/a> (VOC). \u201cThese regimes regularly kill their own citizens and have a devastating effect on human rights and their national economies.\u201d In fact, over 1.5 billion people \u2013 including those living in Laos, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, and, of course, China \u2013 currently live under oppressive Communist and socialist governments.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1993 by a bipartisan, unanimous Act of Congress, VOC is \u201cdevoted to commemorating the more than 100 million victims of communism around the world and to pursuing the freedom of those still living under totalitarian regimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before coming to VOC, Bremberg served as the Trump administration\u2019s Representative of the United States to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva. During his time there, which he describes as a \u201cprofound and life changing experience,\u201d he \u201cbecame aware of the challenge of China,\u201d which was \u201cfar worse\u201d than he had realized. He notes that the U.N. International Human Rights Council made investigating the United States\u2019 record on racism during the summer of 2020 its highest priority \u2013 putting it above China\u2019s appalling human rights violations against Uyghurs, among other ethnic groups within its borders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunist countries by far have the worst record on human rights, past and present,\u201d Bremberg argues. \u201cTheir brutality is only outdone by their lies and obfuscations.\u201d Seeing this moral imbalance up close convinced him of the \u201cneed to educate Americans about the dangers of Communism today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>American civic education, Bremberg states, entails not only understanding the structure of our form of government but also the world around us. Pointing to the competing claims of the 1619 Project and the 1776 Commission, he notes that while we should be willing to \u201cbe self-critical and examine our past,\u201d we also need to view our nation in comparison to others, especially ones existing under Communism\u2019s iron fist.<\/p>\n<p>While Bremberg says that the United States has done an excellent job highlighting the horrors of the Holocaust in K-12 education \u2013 he recalls the effect that reading Anne Frank\u2019s personal diary has had on generations of students \u2013 students\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Americans today assume that the threat of Communism subsided with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But \u201cWe continue to see Communist and socialist regimes pop up and spread not only in Latin America \u2013 for example, in Venezuela and Nicaragua \u2013 but around the world,\u201d says Ambassador Andrew Bremberg, president and CEO of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC). \u201cThese regimes regularly kill their own citizens and have a devastating effect on human rights and their national economies.\u201d In fact, over 1.5 billion people \u2013 including those living in Laos, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, and, of course, China \u2013 currently live under oppressive Communist and socialist governments.Founded in 1993 by a bipartisan, unanimous Act of Congress, VOC is \u201cdevoted to commemorating the more than 100 million victims of communism around the world and to pursuing the freedom of those still living under totalitarian regimes.\u201dBefore coming to VOC, Bremberg served as the Trump administration\u2019s Representative of the United States to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva. During his time there, which he describes as a \u201cprofound and life changing experience,\u201d he \u201cbecame aware of the challenge of China,\u201d which was \u201cfar worse\u201d than he had realized. He notes that the U.N. International Human Rights Council made investigating the United States\u2019 record on racism during the summer of 2020 its highest priority \u2013 putting it above China\u2019s appalling human rights violations against Uyghurs, among other ethnic groups within its borders.\u201cCommunist countries by far have the worst record on human rights, past and present,\u201d Bremberg argues. \u201cTheir brutality is only outdone by their lies and obfuscations.\u201d Seeing this moral imbalance up close convinced him of the \u201cneed to educate Americans about the dangers of Communism today.\u201dAmerican civic education, Bremberg states, entails not only understanding the structure of our form of government but also the world around us. Pointing to the competing claims of the 1619 Project and the 1776 Commission, he notes that while we should be willing to \u201cbe self-critical and examine our past,\u201d we also need to view our nation in comparison to others, especially ones existing under Communism\u2019s iron fist.While Bremberg says that the United States has done an excellent job highlighting the horrors of the Holocaust in K-12 education \u2013 he recalls the effect that reading Anne Frank\u2019s personal diary has had on generations of students \u2013 students\u2019 understanding of Communism is weak by comparison. VOC spotlights Communism\u2019s devastating record and the continuing threat it poses to free government by \u201ctelling powerful stories and highlighting examples of Communism\u2019s victims.\u201d These stories, he argues, \u201ccapture our imaginations, creating deeper connections\u201d that will help students \u201clearn core truths\u201d that will stick with them.VOC offers a number of resources to do just that. Its Witness Project is an award-winning video series featuring victims of Communism telling powerful, heart-wrenching stories. One video highlights the harrowing journey of Ji Seong-ho, who escaped North Korea by walking ten thousand kilometers on crutches. President Trump recognized his bravery and courage during an unforgettable moment during the 2018 State of the Union Address.Other programs and content include VOC\u2019s annual National Education Seminar for middle and high school teachers (it will be live-streamed starting next year), a complete curriculum with fact sheets highlighting what Communism has wrought on the world stage, and Communism in the World webinars featuring thoughtful presentations from experts. VOC\u2019s three fellowship programs on China, Latin America, and Poland feature articles, reports, and books by affiliated scholars that cover all aspects of Communism. The Baltic Fellowship program should begin next year with an Estonian scholar working with VOC in D.C.Students can visit the Victims of Communism Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., which commemorates those killed by Communist regimes. Dedicated by President George W. Bush on the 20th anniversary of Ronald Reagan\u2019s famous \u201cTear Down this Wall\u201d speech,\u00a0the statue depicts the \u201cGoddess of Democracy\u201d holding a torch \u2013 the same statue Chinese students erected during the famous protests in Tiananmen Square.Upcoming events include the China Forum \u2013 a conference featuring scholars and speakers on the issues and challenges related to the People\u2019s Republic of China \u2013 and an event in St. Louis to commemorate VOC\u2019s Memorial Day, which occurs annually on November 7. Audiences will hear gripping accounts from those who experienced Communism\u2019s tyranny firsthand.In 2022, VOC will proudly open \u201ca world-class, digitally integrated museum\u201d in Washington, D.C., that will provide \u201ca captivating visitor experience,\u201d a goal more than 25 years in the making. Located at McPherson Square, the museum will be an \u201cinternational hub of scholarship and citizen engagement for the 21st century anticommunist movement.\u201d\u201cThrough Western capitalism and democracy,\u201d Bremberg argues, \u201cwe can better protect human rights and improve our system over time through self-correction by civic participation\u201d \u2013 an approach that makes a stark contrast with the horrors that Communism has inflicted upon hundreds of millions of people in the 20th and 21st centuries.The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.Mike Sabo is the editor of\u00a0RealClear\u2019s American Civics portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}