The Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom is awarded each year by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation to those individuals and institutions that have demonstrated a life-long commitment to freedom and democracy and opposition to communism and all other forms of tyranny.

Medal of Freedom Recipients

2011

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, John C. Whitehead

2010

Robert Conquest, Harry Wu, Emanuelis Zingeris

2009

Rep. Steny Hoyer, Sec. Jack Kemp, Bishop Lazlo Tokes, Edwin Meese III, George Allen, Dr. Richard Pipes

2008

Hon. Kateryna Yushchenko, Hon. Paula J. Dobriansky, Midge Decter, Hon. Tom Lantos

2007

William F. Buckley, Jr., Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Tran Van Ba, Hon. Janos Horvath, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher

2006

Lech Walesa, Milada Horakova, Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.

2005

Hon. Edward L. Rowny, Pope John Paul II, Solidarity Free Trade Union of 1980, Anna Walentynowicz, Hon. Lev E. Dobriansky

2004

Rep. John Shimkus, Major General John Singlaub, USA (Ret.), Lockheed Martin Corporation

2003

Hon. Vaclav Havel, National Endowment for Democracy, Michael Novak

2002

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Rep. Philip M. Crane, Hon. Viktor Orban, Hae Yung Chung

2001

Vladimir Bukovsky, Jesse Helms

2000

Wei Jingsheng, Youk Chhang, Col. John McKone, USA (Ret.), Doan Viet Hoat, Col. Lewis Millett, USA (Ret.), Hon. Orson Swindle, Gen. Sun Yup Paik, ROK (Ret.)

1999

Elena Bonner, Lane Kirkland, Hon. Vytautas Landsbergis, Hon. Philip Dimitrov