The commemoration of the victims of communism in the US

June 12 has been declared a day of remembrance in honour of the victims of communism in the US. Yesterday, the foundation stone for a memorial site was laid in Washington. Wessela Ilieva criticises the fact that this initiative is not the work of the UN or Europe, but a foundation in Washington. "The feeling that, wherever you go in your home country, you're treading on a mass grave, is painful. At the same time you would think you were walking among the dead today when you sense the cool indifference of the living towards a historical truth which is only two decades in the past. This poses the question of how one should talk of communism, of the perpetrators and the victims. The question 'how ?' no doubt has more than one answer. But there's only one answer to the original, fundamental question of whether we should talk about it: absolutely."

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