Students deserve to know this shocking truth about communism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : By ignoring the continued existence of communism, we are failing to understand the challenges that the United States faces at home and abroad.
59% : The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, but communism did not.
59% : This is why the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) applauds the numerous state-led efforts to ensure that the truth about communism is taught in all our schools.
57% : Karl Marx, in his Communist Manifesto, established the goals and measures necessary to achieve communism that included the abolition of private property, abolition of the rights of inheritance, the establishment of a classless society, and the centralization of power in the hands of the state.
56% : The first attempt to install communism occurred in Russia in 1917, as Vladimir Lenin's initial promise of peace, land and bread quickly devolved into terror, collectivization, famine and civil war leading to the deaths of almost 7 million people.
56% : Unfortunately, some in the media as well as forces on the ground in Virginia and Florida are opposing efforts to teach our children about the enduring legacy of communism.
55% :To answer this call, VOC opened the United States' first museum dedicated to the victims of communism.
55% :Ken Pope is CEO of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, an educational, research and human rights nonprofit organization devoted to commemorating the more than 100 million victims killed under communism and more than 1.5 billion people still living under communist regimes.
53% : After all, students deserve the facts about communism, both its brutal history and the ongoing oppression of those still living under such regimes.
50% : We also offer a witness speaker series that provides the testimony of those who suffered personally under communism.
50% : As the great Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote in his famous "Warning to the West":"It is astonishing that Communism has been writing about itself in the most open way, in black and white, for 125 years...
49% : Even more shocking, 18 percent of Gen Z and 13 percent of millennials reported that communism is a fairer system than capitalism and deserves consideration in America.
48% : Communism may not be knocking at your front door, but it is spying in our backyard.
47% : Communism emerged in the 19th century as a political, societal and economic ideology.
47% : Alarmingly, a 2020 VOC poll found that 40 percent of Americans have a favorable view of socialism.
47% : The truth about communism is readily available to all through the historic record, but future generations will only learn if they are taught.
44% : That figure rose to 49 percent in Gen Z, with a third of Gen Z supporting the gradual elimination of capitalism in favor of a more socialist system.
34% :'F---ING ANGRY' MARXIST TEACHER CALLS FOR URGENT WAR AGAINST CAPITALISM: 'REVOLUTIONS INVOLVE VIOLENCE'

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