Florida leaders took a stand against communism — listing free child care and rent freezes among their list of concerns — during a press conference set on the state’s annual Victims of Communism Day.

“It’s important to talk about in a very clear-eyed way the destruction, the lives, 100 million dead at the hands of Marxism-Leninism. But I think it’s also important that we just recognize the whole absurdity of it all, the whole idea of communism,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said at the Miami Freedom Tower as he urged young people to learn about the history of communism.

Joining him was Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas , who used the press conference to rally against “punitive” taxes on the wealthy, free child care, rent freezes and government-run grocery stores, which he argued al

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