What does this range tell us about the human cost of communist regimes, and what are the most important human rights lessons Americans should take from history?

Well, you know, I actually am part of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation board, and we feel that, um, there's a little bit of historical illiteracy on the part of a lot of Americans.

I think not many people know that there have been over the last century plus, uh, over 100 million victims of communism.

Those are lives lost, not just...

That, that doesn't include the number of people whose lives, um, were constrained and limited and who, who suffered under the sort of tyranny of living in that kind of repressive regime.

And so we hope it serves an educational purpose, and we really, uh, just feel that in some ways the mission of Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation has once again become highly topical and highly relevant, as I say, in the political moment that we find themselves in.

And you mentioned human rights.

... has gained so much appeal with younger Americans, and what do you think many of them may not understand about the true nature of socialist and communist regimes?