Republican State Rep. David Borrero Sponsors Bill to Memorialize Communism's Atrocities
Local News Staff 
A bill mandating public school students take part in “Victims of Communism Day” will now head for a final vote in the full House. The bill seeks to educate students about the pain, death and violence caused by communism. Republican Rep. David Borrero of Sweetwater said he sponsored HB 395 to “memorialize the many millions of victims of communism who have suffered … since Nov. 7, 1917,” he said.
“This bill requires 45 minutes of instruction using examples (from those countries) to remember the victims and how these policies have failed people throughout history,” Borrero said. Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Russia’s Lenin and Joseph Stalin, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, Cambodia’s Pol Pot and China’s Mao Zedong are the figures mentioned in the legislation that aims to ensure students learn, “how victims suffered under these regimes through suppression of speech, poverty, starvation, migration and systemic lethal violence.”
Sen. Many Diaz of South Florida also proposed similar legislation.
