The grand opening of the Museum of the Victims of Communism took place on the 8th of June in Washington. It will open to the public on 13 June. The museum was founded on the initiative of the Memorial Foundation for the Victims of Communism. The seat of the Museum is located near the place where the Goddess of Freedom Monument was erected in 2007.
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) is a non-profit anti-communist organization in the United States, authorized by a unanimous Act of Congress in 1993 for the purpose of "educating Americans about the ideology, history and legacy of communism."
According to Kristen Ghodsee and Scott Sehon, the estimate of 100 million dead favored by the organization is dubious, as their source for this is the introduction to The Black Book of Communism by Stéphane Courtois which has attracted praise but also criticism from historians. Ghodsee and Sehon write that while "quibbling about numbers is unseemly. What matters is that many, many people were killed by communist regimes." Ghodsee posits that the foundation, along with counterpart conservative and anti-communist organizations in Eastern Europe, seeks to institutionalize the "Victims of Communism" narrative as a double genocide theory, or the moral equivalence between the Nazi Holocaust (race murder) and those killed by Communist regimes (class murder).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Communism_Memorial_Foundation
Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee (born April 26, 1970) is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Scott Robert Sehon (born 1963) is an American philosopher and a professor of philosophy at Bowdoin College.