Comintern
noun
Com·in·tern
ˈkä-mən-ˌtərn 
: the Communist International established in 1919 and dissolved in 1943
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But during World War II, Stalin disbanded the Comintern in a desperate bid to please the Americans, and the sabotage operations abruptly ended.
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Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2024
Toss in a connection to Monsanto, the Masons, the Comintern, and the Kardashians.
—Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 24 July 2024
Moscow enforced ideological conformity through its organizations, including the Comintern—the official organization of international communism.
—Jeremy Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2024
The Comintern in Moscow chastised him for narrowing his work to Vietnam rather than seeking to liberate Indochina more broadly.
—Adom Getachew, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
Stalin’s Kremlin, through the global influence of the Comintern, funded a boatload of American culture.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2023
Stalin dissolves the Comintern In order to deflect suspicions from his WWII allies of promoting communism in other countries, Stalin disbanded the Communist International, an organization that pushed for world communism.
—Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2016
At the Sixth Congress of the Comintern, in the summer of 1928, there was a major debate about how best to agitate for Communist revolution among African Americans.
—The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
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Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2024
Toss in a connection to Monsanto, the Masons, the Comintern, and the Kardashians.
—Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 24 July 2024
Moscow enforced ideological conformity through its organizations, including the Comintern—the official organization of international communism.
—Jeremy Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2024
The Comintern in Moscow chastised him for narrowing his work to Vietnam rather than seeking to liberate Indochina more broadly.
—Adom Getachew, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
Stalin’s Kremlin, through the global influence of the Comintern, funded a boatload of American culture.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2023
Stalin dissolves the Comintern In order to deflect suspicions from his WWII allies of promoting communism in other countries, Stalin disbanded the Communist International, an organization that pushed for world communism.
—Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2016
At the Sixth Congress of the Comintern, in the summer of 1928, there was a major debate about how best to agitate for Communist revolution among African Americans.
—The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
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“Comintern.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Comintern. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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