Written question asked by Lord Blencathra (Conservative) on Thursday, 13 July 2017, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 27 July 2017. It was answered by Lord Young of Cookham (Conservative) on Thursday, 14 September 2017 on behalf of the Cabinet Office.

Communism

Question: Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to commemorate in October the many millions who have died, since the October Revolution 1917, as a result of the actions of the governments of the USSR, the National Socialist government of Germany, the Communist Party of China, the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the German Democratic Republic, the Republic of Cuba, the People's Republic of Angola, the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and other countries which established governments founded on Marxist-socialist principles.

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