Crimes against humanity under communist regimes
The Living History Forum specifically focuses on calling our attention to crimes against humanity under communist regimes. We concentrate on those crimes against humanity that were committed during the communist regimes in the Soviet Union, China and Cambodia during the period between the Russian revolution and the fall of the wall (1917 – 1989).
Two leading Swedish experts were commissioned by us to compile available research in order to provide a comprehensible overview of the international research on the subject. Our work is based on specific events and their consequences. In order to show how private individuals were affected, the fate of individuals has been given a central role in the material that has been compiled for schools.
The exhibition Little brother watches you (Lillebror ser dig) toured twenty towns in Sweden during 2008 and 2009. Lectures and teacher training on the theme was being held in connection with the exhibition.
We have also opened a separate exhibition "Dinner with Pol Poon, about the genocide in Cambodia, on 9 September 2009.