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The '''Comintern''', or '''Communist International''', was an international [[Communist]] organization founded by and controlled by the [[Soviet Union]]. It was first established in 1919, as a way for the Soviet Union to "export revolution abroad" in its policy of overthrow legitimate regimes; to aid revolutionary Communist parties in other countries and to use foreign Communist parties for [[espionage]] and [[subversion (political)]] to further Communist goals.

With his seizure of power in Russia, Soviet General Secretary [[V.I. Lenin]] turned immediately to his real goal, world revolution. He invited members of all the old socialist parties to join the Comintern. Many did, and new parties were formed—the Communist Party of France (CPF), the [[Communist Party of China]] (CCP), the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA), the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) and so on, all under the control of the mother party in Moscow ([[CPSU]]).

The openly proclaimed aim This was the stark specter facing the non-Communist nations in the decades before World War II: a power covering one-sixth of the Comintern earth's surface had at its command a global movement that was fighting to wrest control of organized labor everywhere, fomenting revolutions in the overthrow colonial regions, vying for the allegiance of all “the western intelligentsia, and planting spies wherever it could—all with the goal of bringing about [[capitalistBolshevism]]” governments and to the establishment of a universal state under Communist dominion. The founding documents all of the Comintern explicitly declared that the member parties and movements were to use whatever means, legal or illegal, world's peoples.<ref> Ralph Raico, [http://cimlwww.250xindependent.comorg/archivepublications/comintern/termsadmarticle.html V.I. Lenin, asp?id=1468 ''Terms of Admission into Communist InternationalFDR: The Man, the Leader, the Legacy'', (July 1920)] First published 1921, The Second Congress Future of the Communist InternationalFreedom Foundation, Verbatum Report, Communist InternationalApril 1, Petrograd2001. Retrieved from The Independent Institute.org 06/17/07.</ref> peaceful or violent, might be appropriate to their situations at any given time.

This was The Comintern Electronic Archives cites the stark specter facing the non-Communist nations in the decades before World War II: a power covering one-sixth organization as "The General staff of the earth’s surface had at its command a global movement that was fighting to wrest control of organized labor everywhere, fomenting revolutions in the colonial regions, vying for the allegiance of the western intelligentsia, and planting spies wherever it could—all with the goal of bringing about [[Bolshevismworld revolution]] to the all of the world’s peoples". <ref>Ralph Raico, [http://www.independentcomintern-online.orgcom/publications/articleFiles%20of%20the%20Communist%20Party%20of%20the%20USA.asp?id=1468 ''FDR: The Man, the Leader, the Legacy''html COMINTERN Electronic Archives], Future of Freedom Foundation, April 1, 2001. Retrieved from The Independent Institute.org 06/17/0715 July 2007.</ref>

The Comintern Electronic Archives cites the organization as "The General staff of the [[world revolution]]". <ref>[http://www.comintern-online.com/Files%20of%20the%20Communist%20Party%20of%20the%20USA.html COMINTERN Electronic Archives]. Retrieved 15 July 2007. </ref> When the Soviet Union itself was invaded in on June 22 June , 1941, the Comintern switched its position to one of active support for the [[Allies]]. A document dated 11 July 11, 1941 making a strategic assessment for the United States [[War Department]] entitled ''Military Intelligence Estimates Prepared by G-2'' states “The Comintern through the Soviet Regime is striving for a [[world revolution]] in the interests of Communism. <ref>[http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/pt_14/x14-033.html#2 Military Intelligence Estimates Prepared by G-2], p. 1341, July 11, 1941.</ref>

:''Main article [[Chinese Communist partyParty]]''The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was founded as an eastern branch of Soviet Communism, carrying out the imperialism of the [[Russian Red Army]]. The CCP constitution passed by the First Congress of the CCP was formulated by the Comintern. The CCP copied the secret and underground means from the Soviet model by which an external illegal organization survived, adopting extreme surveillance and control measures. The CCP constitution passed by the First Congress of the CCP was formulated by the Comintern.

In 1935[[Mao Zedong]] and [[Chu The]], and later [[Georgi DimitrovZhou Enlai]] was General Secretary , set up a Soviet government in two central provinces of China. In 1931 the Executive Committee of the Cominternin Moscow directed Mao Zedong to organize a Soviet on the Russian model. At <ref>''Soviet Russia and the 15th Anniversary Far East'' by David J. Dallin (New Haven, 1948); ''Inside Red China'' by Nym Wales (New York, 1939).</ref> In 1933, the CCP sent a message to [[Josef Stalin]] which read, "Lead us on, O our pilot, from victory to victory!"<ref>''Soviet Russia and the Far East'', David J. Dallin, New Haven, 1948; 17th Congress of tbe Communist Party of China he laid down tbe Communist line to the followersSoviet Union, Stenog. Report, p. 1323, quoted in ''While You Slept :Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'', John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf pg. 21] pdf.</ref>

In 1935, [[Georgi Dimitrov]] was General Secretary of the Comintern. At the 15th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China he laid down the Communist line to the followers: :"...as a real Bolshevik Party, the Communist Party of China realizes that however great tbe the successes it has achieved, they are only the first serious steps on the road to the liberation of tbe the Chinese people...The Party... is faced with the task of carrying on a systematic struggle to establish a [[United Front|united national front]] with the [[Kuomintang]]...It is necessary that energetic measures be taken to exert pressure on public opinion and the governments, first and foremost in England, France, and the U.S.A." <ref>''China: The March toward Unity'', Address "The 15th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China" by Georgi Dimitov, pp. 83-87.</ref> In 1935, Mao and Zhou Enlai were elected to the Executive Committee of the Comintern in Moscow. They remained on this committee until it was publicly disbanded in 1943.<ref>''While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'', John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf pgs. 21 - 22] pdf.</ref> [[Edgar Snow]] introduced Mao and [[Zhou Enlai]] to American readers in 1937 in his book, ''Red Star Over China'', shortly after the [[Chinese Red Army]]’s route by [[Chiang Kai-shek]] in 1934 and their year long retreat to [[Yenan]] known as the [[Long March]]. Snow wrote, "The political ideology, tactical line and theoretical leadership of the Chinese Communists have been under the close guidance, if not positive direction, of the Communist International, which during the last decade has become virtually a bureau of the Russian Communist Party. In the final analysis this means that for better or worse, the policies of the Chinese Communists, like the Communists in every other country, have had to fall in line with, and usually subordinate themselves to, the broad strategic requirements of [[Soviet Russia]], under the dictatorship of [[Stalin]]."<ref>''Red Star Over China'' by Edgar Snow, New York, 1937, pg. 374.</ref>

* [[History_of_AlbaniaHistory of Albania#The_Communist_and_Nationalist_ResistanceThe Communist and Nationalist Resistance|Albanian National Liberation Army]]

* [[Greek_Civil_WarGreek Civil War#Background:_19411941-44|Greek National Liberation Front]]

* [[Mongolia#Sovietization|Mongolian People's Republic]]

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