Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

It's not just the absolute numbers that are massive, but also the population decline that in many places is above 90, 95%.

And then actually in terms of China, one of the things that I also thought was striking is if you look at the death rates, even in what people like the Victims of Communism Foundation and things like that, and the Black Book of Death, and there's always Mao's Great Famine and Mao's Great Famine.

And then they're like, you know, 40 million dead, 60 million dead or whatever.

And we can get into the details of how they calculate those.

Her name, Dr. Alita DiCole.

She's a board member of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

Dr. DiCole has a message for America and Americans, and we'll hear it later this morning on your News Talk America Digital Interactive Friday.

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And that's how they made their way in and took over the country and literally destroyed the country.

We're being joined on the panel this morning on Digital Interactive Friday by Dr. Alita Dikoli.

concert pianist, but she's a board member of Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the author of the book Beneath the Silence.

There's a link to Amazon right on my show notes at realnewstalk.com. Dr. DeCole, as you see America facing a communist threat, and it is right now, I've been warning people for at least five years that the Democrat Party is the Democrat Communist Party.

The name's a regime tried to erase.

Dr. Alita DeCole, she's also a board member of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

So you are truly doing just phenomenal work in terms of educating the American people about the realities of communism.

And I'm so grateful to have you here today.

But if you've ever been or never been or, or a- anybody gets a chance, the AFI is a, it's a beautiful theater, so I was a little disappointed to see it.

But I think that the choice of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation to host the film festival, great idea.

I- If, if you were in charge of this, Greg Rabidou, and someone said, "I, I need you to, to, to fill my theaters up," how do you...

What would the process be for you to get the eyeballs of people who need, the people who need to see these things, the people who are, uh, you know, who are drinking the Kool-Aid on this, uh, you know, listening to Mondani and listening to AOC and, uh, this guy up in Michigan, uh, uh, uh, Zoran.

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 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, over 100 million victims of communism.

Those are lives lost.

That doesn't include the number of people whose lives were constrained and limited and 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 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.

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 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, over 100 million victims of communism.

Those are lives lost.

That doesn't include the number of people whose lives were constrained and limited and 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 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.

U.S. civics education hardly seems to be trending in a better direction.

A poll by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in 2019 found that more than 7 in 10 Gen Z students and more than 6 in 10 millennials said they did not learn about communist regimes in their K-12 careers, their entire K-12 education.

In 2022, our country's National Assessment of Education Progress scores U.S. history, which measures students' knowledge of the subject in the context of democracy, culture, technological, and economic changes fell by five points between 2018 and by 14 points below 2014 averages.

Worse, it's getting worse.

My question is, what would you say are resources you would recommend to relatives who are leaning towards socialism? And one I would jump in with, and I didn't say you, you may have another, but I know you think very highly of this organization as well.

There's the, uh, The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, they've got a great website.

And I think, Denise, you actually, you have a friend who's a speaker for them.

Correct.