The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation hosted a seminar on totalitarianism, on May 24th at the Victims of Communism Museum. The conversation included presentations by leading journalists, diplomats, and scholars in cooperation with the Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. The event marks the 70th anniversary of the first academic conference on the challenge of totalitarianism in Boston in March 1953 when the Soviet Union posed a grave threat to the Free World. Three panels explored, respectively, the meaning of totalitarianism; teaching the nature and history of totalitarianism; and, finally, the legacy of totalitarianism in our world today – a case study of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
