Building Ottawa’s Victims of Communism memorial the right thing to do

The memorial, currently being built, should not be a controversial issue when it is a moral issue that reflects the history, identity, and values of Canadians.

Estonia has created a monument in memory of the victims of communism, pictured, and Canada is right to create its own, says Estonian envoy to Canada Toomas Lukk. Photograph courtesy of Arne Maasik via Mr. Lukk

Opinion

BY TOOMAS LUKK

August 23, 2021

Aug. 23 offers a stark reminder of dark times, when under the auspices of two dictators, Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin, the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed. The signing of the pact stunned the world as an alliance between Communism and Nazism was inconceiva...

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