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Washington, DC: Victims of Communism Memorial

A replica of Tiananmen Square's "Goddess of Democracy" so that we will never forget that Communism killed people.

Address:
88 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC
Directions:
In the little triangle of land where Massachusetts Ave., New Jersey Ave., G St., and 1st St. intersect. On the south side of Massachusetts Ave., two blocks west of Union Station and five blocks north of the U.S. Capitol.
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Commie Casualties Get Monument

The Berlin Wall came down in 1989. It wasn't long afterward that Lee Edwards, an historian at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, launched a campaign to build a museum memorializing everyone who had died under communism (The fall of Soviet Russia, a more specific event, is remembered through creative uses of its junk.).

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