Joseph Stalin5 July 1947
Cominform (from Communist Information Bureau) is the common name for what is officially referred to as the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties
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Cominform (from Communist Information Bureau) is the common name for what is officially referred to as the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties
The Cominform has as its stated goal. "..to organize an exchange of experience, and where necessary to coordinate the activity of the Communist parties, on the basis of mutual agreement."
The Cominform has its own newspaper, For Lasting Peace, for People's Democracy!
The Cominform is based on the Comintern which was dissolved in 1942, it co-ordinates European Communist Parties
The Cominform the first official forum of the International Communist Movement since the dissolution of the Comintern and confirmed the new realities after World War II, including the creation of an Eastern Bloc
Cominform was a Soviet-dominated organization of Communist parties founded at a conference of Communist party leaders in Szklarska Poreba, Poland
Cominform was initially located in Belgrade (then the capital of the Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia)
Yugoslavia is expelled from the Cominform
After the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the group the seat is moved to Bucharest, Romania
The Cominform is dissolved after the Soviet rapprochement with Yugoslavia and the process of De-Stalinization
The Cominform is abolished to improve relations with the West & Yugoslavia
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