Museum of Communist Terror

09/06/2026

The killing of nine men at this mine in 1981 was an important step on the road to the fall of the communist regime in Poland. 800,000 out of 2.5m members of the United Workers Party showed their disgust by tearing up their party cards. The killings galvanised support for the clandestine operations of the banned Solidarity Trade Union. Protests and commemorative actions took place across Poland. You can visit the museum about the strike and communism in Poland in the nearby Silesian Freedom and Solidarity Centre.

03/06/2026

Our director, James Bartholomew, took part in a panel session at this conference in Poland.

20/05/2026

Communist regimes have usually despised and persecuted religions and yet they have been similar to religions themselves. The preservation of the bodily remains of their "saints" is a prime example.

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.