Museum of Communist Terror

11/05/2026

Karl Marx made four bold predictions about the future. Since then, about 178 years have passed. How have his predictions fared? It turns out that all four predictions were wrong.

11/05/2026

Karl Marx made four bold predictions about the future. Since then, about 178 years have passed. How have his predictions fared? It turns out that all these predictions were wrong.

07/04/2026

What Roger Scruton did in the Cold War: clandestine talks in private houses... delivering samizdat....and what it meant to people behind the Iron Curtain.

01/04/2026

Mao's harem..Stalin's dachas ...Castro's yachts...Communist leaders fulminated against exploitation and inequality, but when they got power, most of them exploited others and gave themselves luxuries on an extraordinary scale. Our new article:

Communist leaders typically criticised property, wealth and privilege. But when they became powerful most of them acquired these things in abundance. Many of them used their power to exploit other people ruthlessly - sometimes cruelly.

23/03/2026

We are proud to be members of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience.

One of the biggest crimes of the 20th century is barely mentioned in textbooks about the Cold War. Why? Maybe it is because little information came out of Ea...

23/03/2026

This is the Museum of Communism in the centre of Prague. Well worth a visit. Some amusing items in the shop. One thing to bear in mind is that prior to the communist coup in 1948, Czechoslovakia was a relatively wealthy, advanced country. By 1988 it was reduced to have a toilet roll crisis when you could not get toilet roll in the shops.

11/03/2026

Sir Roger Scruton took part in covert operations in Eastern Europe and received honours from Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia as a result. Exhibition now in Czech Republic.

25/02/2026

Two young girls were suddenly arrested and deported in cattle cars. Their stories give a small window into one of the biggest but least well-known events of the 20th century: Stalin's deportation of 3 million people from Eastern Europe and the Baltic States. The full video is here: https://youtu.be/XuhkTbRmpA4

28/01/2026

Why do communist regimes always become terror states? Konstantin Kisin gives his answer.
See full interview here: https://youtu.be/tjwRM_PJxyQ

26/01/2026

We are sad to say that Ivanna Maszczak died on Saturday. She was a remarkable, brave woman of 100 who had experienced extraordinary suffering - torture and the Gulag - because of the Soviet Union. She lived for many years in a council flat just off the Portobello Road in London.

19/01/2026

The Soviet Union invaded Poland on 17th September, 1939. Irena Godyń was 14 years old and tried to defend her country.