Posted on 01/15/2014 11:27:21 AM PST by Borges
Yeah, I figured that much. Can’t name real names on Wiki. The Soviets funded quite a few groups in the West. I wonder what happened to them. I suspect Castro is funding some now, like the notorious Institute for Policy Studies in Washington (the Chinese are probably too smart to send to money to anything that doesn’t directly benefit them. The Soviets thought they funded worldwide revolution. )
WORLD PEACE COUNCIL (WPC)
Was the Soviet Union’s major international front organization during the Cold War era
Placed all the blame for the nuclear arms race on Western war-mongering
Cast American “imperialism” as the chief obstacle to world peace
Was funded chiefly by the USSR, until the Soviet collapse of 1991
See also: U.S. Peace Council
Founded in Prague during a 1949 “Peace Congress” sponsored by the USSR and its Eastern European satellites, the World Peace Council (WPC) was the Soviet Union’s major international front organization during the Cold War era. Operating under the joint control of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the KGB, the Council sought to influence public opinion and government policies in non-Communist countries along lines that promoted Soviet policy goals. Toward that end, WPC focused on placing all the blame for the nuclear arms race on Western warmongering.
WPC first set up its offices in Paris but was expelled by the French government in 1952 for allegedly engaging in “fifth column” activities. After relocating to Prague and then to Vienna, the Council was banned by the Austrian government in 1957 but continued to operate covertly in Vienna as the International Institute for Peace. In 1968 the Council re-assumed its original name and moved its headquarters to Helsinki, Finland, where it remained until 2000, at which time it relocated again to Athens, Greece.
In 1978 the House Intelligence Committee released a major CIA report that identified WPC as a Soviet front group. Subsequent government reports and State Department documents continued to echo that claim.
In 1979 WPC characterized the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as a reaction to Chinese and U.S. aggression against Afghanistan.
By the end of the 1980s, WPC claimed to represent more than 2,000 participating parties and movements from 140 countries around the world, but fully 90 percent of its $40 million annual budget was supplied by the Soviet Union. When the USSR collapsed in 1991, this funding largely dried up, causing WPC to dramatically scale back its operations across the globe. As of December 2011, the Council maintained a presence in just 20 countries.
Today WPC describes itself as “an anti-imperialist, democratic, independent and non-aligned international movement of mass action.” Its guiding principles and objectives are:
opposition to “Imperialist wars and occupation of sovereign countries and nations”
“prohibition of all weapons of mass destruction”
“abolition of foreign military bases”
“total and universal disarmament under effective international control,” including a reduction of conventional arms
“elimination of all forms of colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination”
“respect [for] the territorial integrity of states”
“non-interference in the internal affairs of nations”
“establishment of mutually beneficial trade and cultural relations based on friendship and mutual respect”
“peaceful co-existence between states with different political systems”
“negotiations instead of use of force in the settlement of differences between nations”
“the dissolution of military blocks and pacts” — most notably NATO, responsible for “60 years of crimes against humanity in dozens of countries”
“the withdrawal of foreign troops” from wherever they are stationed around the world
“the establishment of a new international economic order,” founded on the redistribution of wealth
“a just solution of the problem of foreign debt”
“support of the liberation movements”
Casting American “imperialism” as the chief obstacle to the realization of the foregoing goals, WPC boasts that it has “organized many protest demonstrations against U.S. interventions in Colombia, El Salvador, and Nicaragua and invasions of Grenada and Panama”; “opposed both Gulf Wars and the war on Afghanistan”; “condemn[ed] vehemently the [American] blockade against Cuba and … U.S. interventions in the internal affairs of that country”; and “insist[ed] that the U.S. government and other Imperialists stop their attempts to overthrow the legitimate government of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.”
WPC also contends that the Arab-Israeli conflict can only be resolved by “a just, two-state solution” authorizing the creation of “an independent State of Palestine within the borders of 1967 and with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
WPC is a registered NGO member of the United Nations. One of its affiliates is the U.S. Peace Council.
For additional information on WPC, click here.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7707
If something is funded by government, how can they be called “Non-Governmental Organizations”??
What’s really annoying and frustrating is that whenever you attempt to research some commie group or individual, you have to go through 10-15 pages of search results to find a source that isn’t liberal or far left. It happens with both Yahoo and Google.
I very rarely use Google.
bump
He made two more films after Limelight.
Thank-you for that insight.
The Communists had their paws in all sorts of groups. Chaplin being honored by one of them means not a whole lot.
The Soviets were our “allies” then and FDR and mainstream Democrats had a similar loving view of old Uncle Joe Slaughterer, I mean Stalin.
Oh of course it was. I meant apart from the films in the agitator mode. The Three Stooges also made anti-Nazi films before Pearl Harbor.
However, he was a communist and anti-American to the end....and he was a very ACTIVE activist. Ideologically and morally he was a despicable person....despite his appealing Little Tramp persona.
The dapper, sophisticated WASP, Alger Hiss also still has his defenders today despite his conviction as a Soviet espionage agent. The State Department has always had its share of commies, com/symps, America-haters and the Israel-hating "Arab Street"....and undoubtedly other spies over the decades, to boot.
Not to mention the Hollywood crowd which was rife with commie ideologues like Chaplin...many of whom were flushed out in the McCarthy era by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
We will always have communists among us....they go back to the French Revolution and further......and some of our contemporary citizens are starting to wake up to the fact that there's a bunch of them currently in the White House and the halls of both houses of Congress.
Only they are called "Progressives" today, not commie pigs.
Leni
"...at the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the Communists suddenly transformed the 'Anti-Nazi League' into the "Hollywood Peace Forum," calling for American neutrality and using the slogan 'Let's Skip the Next War.'..."
--Ronald Radosh, from his book, Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance With the Left
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4251
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"[Pete] Seeger was antiwar during the period of the Nazi-Soviet Pact; pro-war after the Soviet Union was the ally of the United States; and anti-war during the years of the Cold War and Vietnam. To Nichols -a rather dense left-winger -it is good form to acknowledge that perhaps 'Stalin was a bad guy,' and then simply get over it, and move on to campaign for very American socialist causes." --Ronald Radosh (former communist)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=01133F31-CE9A-40BC-B797-47CBB0023EF4
His head and hat seem to keep getting larger. Or is there something else I’m not noticing?
Sounds like it might be you....
You’re right: whatever else it is, this photo was composed according to classical principles. Thanks for the analysis.
I always preferred the Fairbanks films from that era (late-1910s), like “Wild and Woolly” and “Till the Clouds Roll By,” to his later, more famous 1920s costume adventures. Marvelous athlete. Great star.
Charlie Chaplin, a [very wealthy] communist, on Wall Street.
There was a day when men wore suits and were not considered well dressed unless he had a hat on. Women wore white gloves and hats also...That disappeared after WW2
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