Why don’t we remember the victims of communism?
by Tim Montgomerie, unherd:
Presented by Douglas Murray and produced by Sean Glynn – and which you can listen to, via Soundcloud, below – examines our failure to remember the victims of communism, in the way that we, rightly, remember the victims of Nazi-ism.
Talking to a wide range of people including David Aaronovitch, Anne Applebaum, Janos Horvath, David Pryce Jones and Giles Udy, Douglas explores why the communist ideology that killed many more people than Nazi Germany – and in many more parts of the world, from Russia to China and to Cambodia – is so poorly remembered in art, education or in public monuments and museums. He begins by noting that young people in Britain might overwhelmingly and correctly identify Adolf Hitler as a source of evil. Most, tragically, don’t even know who Lenin or Mao or Pol Pot are.