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Would such a statue or monument be made in China?

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Let me suggest something: A museum in Washington dedicated to the victims of communism.

The struggle against communism impelled American foreign policy for almost half a century. That struggle was also the central concern of Ronald Reagan's political life. As much as Reagan cared about the geopolitics of the struggle, he cared even more about the human victims of communism's brutal totalitarian ideology.

The countries of Eastern Europe are now memorializing their terrible experiences under communism.

A particularly impressive museum has opened in Budapest, Hungary. But Eastern Europe did not suffer alone. Cambodia, China, Cuba, Ethiopia and Afghanistan also have their stories to tell.

A "Ronald Reagan Museum of the Victims of Communism" in Washington would ensure that these stories were kept alive and made vivid for future generations.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington offers an outstanding example to emulate.

The Holocaust Museum has emerged as one of Washington's most-visited sites. It offers a message that is purposeful as well as mournful. It's a message propounded from the National Archives to the Lincoln Memorial -- and a message to which Ronald Reagan devoted his political life:

The principles on which the United States is built are not mere preferences. Reject those principles, and you are embarking on a nightmare that can culminate in the ultimate horrors of human injustice, oppression, cruelty and violence.

As yet, the crimes of communism are appallingly minimized, excused or even condoned in the places where they were ordered, places such as Moscow, Havana, Beijing and Hanoi. Earlier this year, I had the chance to visit the one and only public remembrance of the Cultural Revolution in all China, a small museum in a park on the outskirts of a provincial city.

What could be more fitting than to remember those crimes in the city that we called the capital of the free world during the struggle against communism? And in the name of the president who not only spoke so eloquently against those crimes, but who issued the challenge that presaged communism's downfall?

So there's my proposal for the new Congress. Introduce a bill to authorize the development of the museum on February 6, with a view to completing work in time for Reagan's 110th birthday in 2021. Instead of a statue, remember this president who so valued the individual with a monument that will restore the individuality of wronged, imprisoned and murdered millions.

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AnthonyT wrote:
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 09:55
Hello,

I find the whole 'struggle against communism' and the 'crimes of communism' and the 'victims of communism' to be somewhat disingenuous.

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Chrissy - Obama doesn't need a statue.

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Chrissy - Obama doesn't need a statue.

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LOL... Go ahead, tell us again that you're not racist.

Always good for a laugh.

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

I find the whole 'struggle against communism' and the 'crimes of communism' and the 'victims of communism' to be somewhat disingenuous. We were not struggling against a philosophy of economics and governance. We were struggling against a league of countries that we believed posed a threat to us.

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Functionally, I don't think our struggle against Communism would have been very different if the Communists were all Nazis, would it? The red menace could have been the gray menace. Communism is just a paint-job used to cover something else.

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In the midst of our struggle against communism, we had our own struggles at home. Mccarthyism clearly demonstrated our fine capacity, as a Nation that operated on principles far from communism, to become beastly.

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