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'''[[Florida]] House Bill 395''', officially '''Victims of Communism Day''', is a bill that was signed and approved by Governor [[Ron DeSantis]] on May 9, 2022.<ref>Ron DeSantis (May 9, 2022). "[https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1523710037146939392 Ron DeSantis on Twitter: Today, I established November 7th as Victims of Communism Day to honor those who have suffered under communism and remind people of the destruction communism has caused worldwide, including a death toll exceeding 100 million. In Florida, we will tell the truth about communism.]" Twitter. Retrieved May 9, 2022. </ref>
==History==
The bill was filed on October 21, 2021, and passed by the House with a resounding 115-0 in the Florida House of Representatives on February 24, 2022, and passed by the Florida Legislature 38-0 on March 2, 2022. The bill was presented to the governor on May 5, and approved on May 9.<ref>[https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/395 CS/HB 395: "Victims of Communism Day"]. ''Florida Senate''.</ref>
==Content==
The bill annually proclaims November 7 of each year as "Victims of Communism Day", which honours the [[Death toll of communism|100,000,000 people who perished]] under [[communism]], as well as the destructive effects it has reaped throughout the world. It requires the day to be observed in public schools & by public exercise and requires high school students to receive specified instruction on the evils of communism.
The bill vows to "include topics such as [[Mao Zedong]] and the [[Cultural Revolution]], [[Joseph Stalin]] and the [[Gulag|Soviet system]], [[Fidel Castro]] and the [[Cuban Revolution]], [[Vladimir Lenin]] and the [[Russian Revolution]], [[Pol Pot]] and the [[Khmer Rouge]], and [[Nicolás Maduro]] and the [[Hugo Chavez|Chavismo]] movement, and how victims suffered under these regimes through poverty, starvation, migration, systemic lethal violence, and suppression of speech".
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External Links==
*[https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/395/BillText/er/PDF CS/HB 395]
[[Category:Florida]]
[[Category:Anti-Communism]]
[[Category:Communism]]
==History==
The bill was filed on October 21, 2021, and passed by the House with a resounding 115-0 in the Florida House of Representatives on February 24, 2022, and passed by the Florida Legislature 38-0 on March 2, 2022. The bill was presented to the governor on May 5, and approved on May 9.<ref>[https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/395 CS/HB 395: "Victims of Communism Day"]. ''Florida Senate''.</ref>
==Content==
The bill annually proclaims November 7 of each year as "Victims of Communism Day", which honours the [[Death toll of communism|100,000,000 people who perished]] under [[communism]], as well as the destructive effects it has reaped throughout the world. It requires the day to be observed in public schools & by public exercise and requires high school students to receive specified instruction on the evils of communism.
The bill vows to "include topics such as [[Mao Zedong]] and the [[Cultural Revolution]], [[Joseph Stalin]] and the [[Gulag|Soviet system]], [[Fidel Castro]] and the [[Cuban Revolution]], [[Vladimir Lenin]] and the [[Russian Revolution]], [[Pol Pot]] and the [[Khmer Rouge]], and [[Nicolás Maduro]] and the [[Hugo Chavez|Chavismo]] movement, and how victims suffered under these regimes through poverty, starvation, migration, systemic lethal violence, and suppression of speech".
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External Links==
*[https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/395/BillText/er/PDF CS/HB 395]
[[Category:Florida]]
[[Category:Anti-Communism]]
[[Category:Communism]]