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==Goals==

==Goals==

The openly proclaimed aim of the Comintern was the overthrow of all “[[capitalist]]” governments and the establishment of a universal state under Communist dominion. The founding documents of the Comintern explicitly declared that the member parties and movements were to use whatever means, legal or illegal, <ref> [http://ciml.250x.com/archive/comintern/termsadm.html V.I. Lenin, ''Terms of Admission into Communist International'', (July 1920)] First published 1921, The Second Congress of the Communist International, Verbatum Report, Communist International, Petrograd.</ref>  peaceful or violent, might be appropriate to their situations at any given time.

The openly proclaimed aim of the Comintern was the overthrow of all “[[capitalist]]” governments and the establishment of a universal state under Communist dominion. The founding documents of the Comintern explicitly declared that the member parties and movements were to use whatever means, legal or illegal,<ref>[http://ciml.250x.com/archive/comintern/termsadm.html V.I. Lenin, ''Terms of Admission into Communist International'', (July 1920)] First published 1921, The Second Congress of the Communist International, Verbatum Report, Communist International, Petrograd.</ref>  peaceful or violent, might be appropriate to their situations at any given time.

This was the stark specter facing the non-Communist nations in the decades before World War II: a power covering one-sixth 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 [[Bolshevism]] to the all of the world’s peoples. <ref>Ralph Raico, [http://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=1468 ''FDR: The Man, the Leader, the Legacy''], Future of Freedom Foundation, April 1, 2001. Retrieved from The Independent Institute.org 06/17/07.</ref>

This was the stark specter facing the non-Communist nations in the decades before World War II: a power covering one-sixth 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 [[Bolshevism]] to the all of the world’s peoples.<ref>Ralph Raico, [http://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=1468 ''FDR: The Man, the Leader, the Legacy''], Future of Freedom Foundation, April 1, 2001. Retrieved from The Independent Institute.org 06/17/07.</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>

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 22 June 1941, the Comintern switched its position to one of active support for the [[Allies]]. A document dated 11 July 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>

When the Soviet Union itself was invaded in on 22 June 1941, the Comintern switched its position to one of active support for the [[Allies]]. A document dated 11 July 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>

The Comintern was publicly disbanded in 1943, however its underground apparatus remained active throughout [[World War II]] and into the [[Cold War]] era.

The Comintern was publicly disbanded in 1943, however its underground apparatus remained active throughout [[World War II]] and into the [[Cold War]] era.

* [[People's Liberation Army|Chinese People's Liberation Army]] of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) (from 1923)  

* [[People's Liberation Army|Chinese People's Liberation Army]] of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) (from 1923)  

* [[International Brigades]]

* [[International Brigades]]

* [[History_of_Albania#The_Communist_and_Nationalist_Resistance|Albanian National Liberation Army]]

* [[History of Albania#The Communist and Nationalist Resistance|Albanian National Liberation Army]]

* [[Communist Party of Yugoslavia]]

* [[Communist Party of Yugoslavia]]

* [[Greek_Civil_War#Background:_1941-44|Greek National Liberation Front]]

* [[Greek Civil War#Background: 1941-44|Greek National Liberation Front]]

* [[Malayan Communist Party]]

* [[Malayan Communist Party]]

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

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