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The EDM drawn up by Romford Tory MP Andrew Rosindell comes at a time when there is a push backed by Boris Johnson to include the atrocities of Communist regimes on the national curriculum alongside Holocaust education about the Nazis.

It comes as the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation has said it estimates there were 100 million victims the Soviet Union, China, Khmer Rouge, Cuba, North Korea and other Communist regimes since the Bolshevik revolution led by Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin imbued with ideology of Karl Marx.

The motion says that the House “regrets that 7 November 2017 marks one hundred years since Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution which subsequently demonstrated, time and again, that Communism is a murderous political ideology, incompatible with liberty, self-government and the dignity of human beings, and injurious to the national, ethnic, and religious traditions of the world’s peoples.”

It further notes that Communism “subjected millions to theft, surveillance, terror and ultimate destruction; acknowledges that the cultural, political and economic legacy of Soviet Communism still negatively affects vast numbers of people today; and accordingly believes that the crimes of Communism – together with those of its mirror image, National Socialism – must forever serve as a warning to humanity of the terrible consequences of totalitarianism.”