Victims Of Communism

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Shortly after the death of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Joseph Stalin rose to total power in the Soviet Union. Before his death in 1953, Stalin caused the deaths of millions through purges, manmade famines, and deportations.
 
An undated photo of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin playing with his daughter, Svetlana (AFP) A service for victims of Ukraine\'s Great Famine in Lviv in November 2006 (AFP) Jan Wallenberg unveils a monument to his cousin, Raoul Wallenberg, in Moscow in January 2001 (AFP) A Soviet Red Army tank in downtown Budapest on November 12, 1956 (AFP) A poster in Beijing showing the Red Guard fighting People aiding victims of the fighting in Prague on August 21, 1968 (AFP) Nobel Prize laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn arrives in Frankfurt after being expelled from the Soviet Union in February 1974 Marxist MPLA fighters in Angola in 1974 (AFP) An undated photo of a forced labor camp in Cambodia during the rule of the Khmer Rouge (AFP) A striking shipyard worker in Gdansk is visited by relatives in August 1980 (AFP) U.S. President Ronald Reagan preparing to give his Berlin Wall speech in June 1987 The Goddess of Freedom statue during Tiananmen Square protests in June 1989 The Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, D.C., on June 12, 2007 (AFP)
 

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