Remembering the Victims of Communism

November 9, 2009 | Jim Vicevich | | ,

On this historic anniversary, the folks at Reason TV have produced a great four minute piece on the victims of Communism. I highlight this because we had so many callers today who lived under or saw first hand life under a socialist dictatorship. People like Kris and Erica and Susan (who lived in West Germany) knew first hand what is was like.

But as Reason TV points out, these people and their lives and their sacrifices are too often forgotten. And today many would even like to flush it all down the memory hole.

And as we look back on that event, we have to resolve, that never again that peoples and nations will allow so evil a tyranny to terrorize the world.

Author and historian Lee Edwards

Yes some, like the New York Times and the Boston Globe, would like to carry on the intellectual debate about what brought the wall down. But after watching this video I am sure you will agree, it was tyranny itself and a people yearning to be free, backed by the world’s defender of freedom, and led by a strong and resolute President that brought down this wall.

Please watch … and never, ever, forget.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2prVpI7m4tM

For more … you can review my post from earlier today.

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

3 Comments

  1. Anne-EH on November 9, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    Jim, another BRILLIANT article, and many THANKS for your special e-mail to me and also of the interview of Erica. Here is the Free Republic posting. :)=^..^=
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2382590/po…



  2. Anne-EH on November 9, 2009 at 4:02 pm

    Jim, took the extra time to look up the Reagan Presidential Library website. You were right, the famous "tear down the wall" speech did take place on your birthday in 1987. Here is the site. Enjoy. :)=^..^=
    http://www.reaganlibrary.com/



  3. sammy22 on November 10, 2009 at 5:23 am

    Did Gorbachev have something to do with all of this? Angela Merkel had him at the celebrations of the fall of the Wall for some reason.



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