According to WACL historian Keith Allen Dennis, the ACWF represented a right-wing anti-communist coalition led by the American Security Council, which we’ve previously touched on as an influential “Cold Warrior think tank.” By 1974, Lee Edwards became the secretary of the ACWF, which organized that year’s WACL conference in Washington. Special guests included Yaroslav Stetsko, former “Prime Minister” of a pro-Nazi government in 1941 western Ukraine that the [Third Reich] immediately squashed, and the Nicaraguan dictator, “whose security guard was only slightly smaller than our president’s,” recalled Edwards.

Edwards acted as the master of ceremonies at a “WACL Freedom Rally,” and was reportedly named Secretary General of the World Anti-Communist League. “I am proud of that conference,” he wrote years later. “But as I traveled about meeting WACL chapter leaders and discussing the program agenda, I became uneasy. Some chapters were led by men who were openly anti-Semitic.” But he was mainly referring to the Mexicans, instead of Stetsko’s Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, which Scott and Jon Lee Anderson described as the “largest and most important umbrella of former Nazi collaborators in the world.”

The ACWF coalition included the National Captive Nations Committee and the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, both chaired by Lev Dobriansky, who was under the sway of Yaroslav Stetsko as leader of the far-right Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (1968–86). Dobriansky eventually co-founded the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) with Lee Edwards, but more about Dobriansky in “The Founders, Pt.2.” All you need to know for now is that Edwards eulogized him as a “hero of the Cold War.”

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Without mentioning it by name, it also seems that the foundation subscribes to the ‘cultural Marxism’ canard:

Just ahead of the event, almost thirty years in the making, the Washington Free Beacon interviewed a member of the VOC Speakers Bureau, who explained to the right-wing outlet, “Marxism has gained a foothold in the American education system through the rise of cancel culture, revisionist history lessons, critical race theory, and divisive gender ideology… The coronavirus pandemic, [she] said, unveiled the extent of Marxist ideology in public education…”