Florida House prepares Red Scare bill to teach students about 'victims of communism'
By
Alex Galbraith
on
April 14, 2021 at 10:02AM
The House on Tuesday took up the bill (HB 1553), which also would require the governor to annually issue a proclamation designating Nov. 7 as “Victims of Communism Day.” Public high school students enrolled in U.S. government classes would be required, starting in the 2022-2023 school year, to get at least 45 minutes of instruction on topics that include “Mao Zedong in China, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet System, Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Revolution, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, and Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.” The date was chosen to reflect the storming of Tsarist Russia's Winter Palace on Nov. 7, 1917.
