Remembering the Victims of Communism

Instapundit links Gateway Pundit: "Berlin Wall Freedom Memorial shut down by Washington University." From the comments: “So basically, the university got into the spirit of the thing and helped make it more real.”

No "speaking truth to power" allowed on campus these days when the lefty professors and administrators are the "power". Some of them might feel bad if reminded that they ignored the suffering of people in the gulags. (Pretty much anything goes if you're on the Left yourself, however).

Reason TV is not under the heel of university officials, and produces a 4-minute video about the victims of Communism and plans for a memorial building.

After claiming approximately 100 million victims in the 20th century, communism was dismissed to the ash heap of history. But those who suffered under its boot heel have largely been confined to the history books when not forgotten altogether.

One reason is that the communists didn't allow TV cameras to record what they were doing. How can you have news with no pictures?

Update: Another problems was suppression of news about the actions of Communist governments against their people. Walter Duranty famously earned a Pulitzer Prize for a NYT series of articled which covered up Soviet repression. Ukrainians remembered Stalin's genocidal starvation campaign this weekend. And FINALLY, a Western reporter who told the truth about the starvation is being recognized.