Communism is target of new online museum

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: The Nation

Washington - Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a group of historians and survivors is working to continue the fight against communism using the internet.Organizers of the new online Global Museum on Communism will webcast the launch of their site from Washington into communist nations at 7:30 pm (2330 GMT) Tuesday from a reception at the Romanian ambassador's residence.

"We will be streaming through the internet into China, Vietnam and Cuba," Lee Edwards, chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, told the German Press Agency dpa in a telephone interview.

Donors include some Eastern European governments, private foundations and nearly 1,000 individual contributors.

The non-profit foundation works to educate "this generation and future generations about the history, philosophy and legacy of communism," including its estimated 100 million civilian fatalities, possibly more, according to its website.

Edwards cited new technology that will allow the webcast to "overcome the Great Firewalls of China."

The same "firewall-busting" protocols recently helped another group, Initiatives for China, to conduct a 30-day online forum for people in China to freely discuss the advancement of democracy in their country over the internet, said Jim Geheran, director of the group's Washington office.



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We may need a Capitalism Museum to be fair

[Soylent Brice]

1. The Bushista Capitalo-Fascism ca. 2001-2009 Museum

that's what i'd like to see.

[damntexdem]

2. Shall I donate my bottle of Real Soda Leninade?

"Join the Party!"

"Get hammered and sickled!"

"A taste worth standing in line for!"

"Our five-year plan: drink a bottle every day and become a hero of socialist flavor!"

;-)

(A real soda. Not all that good, though.)

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. I'm going to donate to a Victims of Capitalism Memorial

The dead are piled like chordwood to the very top of the world, and they're dying by the tens of thousands every day.

[Blue_Tires]

5. I'd LOVE to create a Victims of Religion Memorial

but let's be honest; it would take up a space the approximate size of Canada

[AlphaCentauri]

6. 50 000 people die every day from poverty-related causes

[David__77]

4. Complete load of US-funded bullshit!

This foundation was established by the US government to spread pro-capitalist ideology:

http://www.victimsofcommunism.org/about/

And I just think it's interesting that its major funders include:

Lockheed Martin Corporation (warmongers)
Pfizer, Inc. ("intellectual property rights" defenders, at the cost of many lives)
Sarah Scaife Foundation (right-wing fascists)
Washington Times Foundation (Moonies)
The Heritage Foundation (neo-cons)

http://www.victimsofcommunism.org/supporters.php

Many crimes were committed in the name of communist ideology, without a doubt. But I totally reject this right-wing attempt to uphold capitalism as sacrosanct and morally pure, and attack all attempts to transform the existing social order.

How dare they attack the Bolshevik revolution, while upholding the system that implemented imperialism, colonialism, and launched two world wars that devastated the globe.

[AlphaCentauri]

7. Those foundations are growing every where like grass

And I bet none of those groups want to see a health care system that protect their employees.