Victims of Communism Day - 2026
The article advocates for May Day to be observed as Victims of Communism Day, a time to remember the estimated 80 to 100 million people who died under communist regimes. The author argues that commemorating these victims is as important as Holocaust remembrance and can help prevent future atrocities. While May Day is symbolically appropriate due to its historical association with communist regimes, the author remains open to alternative dates if they gain broader support.
- ▪May Day has been proposed as Victims of Communism Day to honor the victims of communist regimes responsible for an estimated 80 to 100 million deaths.
- ▪The Black Book of Communism attributes more deaths to communist regimes than to all other 20th-century tyrannies combined.
- ▪The highest death toll under a communist regime occurred in China during Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward.
- ▪Communist regimes continue to exist in largely unreformed forms in Cuba and North Korea, while Venezuela's Marxist government has caused severe humanitarian crises.
- ▪The author believes the atrocities under communist regimes stem from systemic flaws inherent in socialist economic systems with centralized control.
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Politics Victims of Communism Day - 2026 May Day should be a day to honor victims of an ideology that took tens of millions of lives. But we should also be open to alternative dates if they can attract broad enough support. Ilya Somin | 5.1.2026 10:15 AM <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-8032119" src="https://d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net/img/q60/uploads/2019/11/KolymaBones-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169" data-credit="NA" srcset="https://d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net/img/q60/uploads/2019/11/KolymaBones-300x169.jpg 300w, https://d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net/img/q60/uploads/2019/11/KolymaBones-768x432.jpg 768w, https://d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net/img/q60/uploads/2019/11/KolymaBones-1024x575.jpg 1024w,…
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