Foreign policy - Comintern

During the war of 1919 Comintern, or the Communist International, was founded. It was an international communist organisation, active in the years 1919-1943, directed by an executive committee with the office in Moscow. 19 parties were included as sections.  

Mass meeting of KPD - German Communist Party (Komunistische Partei Deutschlands), section of Comintern.

Comintern wanted to form an international republic of Soviets. All means to reach this goal were advisable: armed insurrection, terrorism. The sections conducted propaganda actions, agitation, sabotage, or spying, all in accordance with, often mutable, concepts of Lenin and later Stalin. The first step was a global revolution, organising coups in different countries and fighting democratic and socialist parties, which were accused of betrayal of ideas and supporting fascism or capitalism.

At the end of 1920 the economic depression in many countries seemed to create an opportunity to introduce communism. After 1934 a new tactics - "the national front" - was accepted, which meant co-operation with the socialist parties in order to fight against fascism. This tactics was not introduced in USSR - the communist party had already been in power there and other parties did not exist.

In 1939 a sudden change in policy took place. Having signed a secret pact with Germany (Ribbentrop-Molotov), fascists became allies, and thus the anti-fascist coalition became the main target of the attacks. As a result of the Russian-German coalition in September 1939 the Germans (on 1 September) and the Russians (on 17 September) attacked Poland, which led to an outburst of World War II. In 1941, when the Germans invaded Russia, anti-fascist policy returned. Some time later, in 1943, Comintern was liquid

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