Whereas the year 2017 marked 100 years since the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia resulting in the world’s first Communist regime under Vladimir Lenin, which led to decades of oppression and violence under Communist regimes throughout the world; Whereas the people of the United States should always remember the crimes committed by Communist regimes in the past century, and which are still being committed today; Whereas based on the philosophy of Karl Marx, communism has proven incompatible with the ideals of liberty, prosperity, and dignity of human life, and has given rise to such infamous totalitarian dictators as Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Nicolae Ceausescu, the Castro brothers, and the Kim dynasty; Whereas Communist regimes worldwide have killed more than 100 million people and subjected countless others to the worst and widest spread human rights abuses known to history, with victims representing many different ethnicities, creeds, and backgrounds; Whereas through false promises of equality and liberation, Communist regimes have as a matter of government policy robbed their own citizens of the rights of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of association through coercion, brutality, and fear; Whereas the bipartisan Congressional Caucus for the Victims of Communism stated publicly in 2018 that Marx’s defenders often say he cannot be held accountable for what Communist regimes did long after his life and death; but Marxist dictators who massacred their own people were applying Communist ideology to political practice ; and Whereas President Donald Trump declared November 7, 2017, as National Day for the Victims of Communism, condemning communism as a political philosophy incompatible with liberty, prosperity, and the dignity of human life