
The World Peace Council (or World Council of Peace) was formed in 1949 in order to promote peaceful coexistence and nuclear disarmament. It has been alleged to be a front organization of Communist party due to its advocacy of unilateral disarmament in western countries and the active participation and funding of the council by the Soviet bloc as well as the leading role taken in the WPC by Communists such as Frédéric Joliot-Curie, the WPC's founding president. The WPC was especially active in those areas bordering United States military installations, in Western Europe, believed to house nuclear weapons. Following the breakup of the Soviet Union the council has dwindled down to a small core group. It was involved in many demonstrations and protests from the late 1940s to the late 1980s and attempted to lead the peace movement though it was largely sidelined beginning in the 1960s by the New Left which distrusted the Soviet Union and its supporters in the "old left". The People's Republic of China resigned from the council in 1966 as a result of the Sino-Soviet split, a move which undermined the WPC's credibility among Maoists and their sympathisers who dominated the New Left in many western countries. The WPC had its headquarters in Helsinki, Finland, at Lönnrotinkatu 25 A, until the 1990s when the Council moved to Greece. In May 2004, the Council held its world congress in Athens attended by representatives of 100 peace groups from around the world. The west and especially the United States, has always maintained that the WPC had been formed by the KGB as a front organization, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies. ==See also== *World peace ==External links== *[http://www.wpc-in.org/ World Peace Council] homepage *[http://www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v08n6p20.htm] "Following the Money Trail at the World Peace Council" Magazine article *[http://www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v08n3p16.htm] "The Ghost Ship of Lonnrotinkatu" Magazine article Peace organizations
== Formed by the KGB == According to this article, the US has always alleged the World Peace Council to have been formed by the KGB as a front group. Also according to this article, the World Peace Council was formed in 1949. According to the KGB article, the KGB was formed in 1953. Do those who allege that the World Peace Council was formed by the KGB have an explanation for this discrepancy? -- User:Antaeus Feldspar 19:20, 22 May 2005 (UTC) :KGB was not "formed" in 1953, if you read the article carefully. It was just a new name. User:Mikkalai 19:46, 22 May 2005 (UTC) Then KGB really needs to be revised to make it clear, because carefully reading the article told me something different: it told me that the MVD and MGB were merged to form a new MVD, and then the merged MVD was split again to form the new MVD and the KGB. While this certainly indicates a certain continuity of action, it doesn't say "Oh, that was just the KGB before it was called the KGB." I think it would be more appropriate to be precise and say that the allegation is that the World Peace Council was formed as a front organization by one of the two Soviet security agencies that would go into the formation of the KGB later. -- User:Antaeus Feldspar 01:00, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
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The World Peace Council (or World Council of Peace) was formed in 1949 in order to promote peaceful coexistence and nuclear disarmament. It has been alleged to be a front organization of Communist party due to its advocacy of unilateral disarmament in western countries and the active participation and funding of the council by the Soviet bloc as well as the leading role taken in the WPC by Communists such as Frédéric Joliot-Curie, the WPC's founding president. The WPC was especially active in those areas bordering United States military installations, in Western Europe, believed to house nuclear weapons. Following the breakup of the Soviet Union the council has dwindled down to a small core group. It was involved in many demonstrations and protests from the late 1940s to the late 1980s and attempted to lead the peace movement though it was largely sidelined beginning in the 1960s by the New Left which distrusted the Soviet Union and its supporters in the "old left". The People's Republic of China resigned from the council in 1966 as a result of the Sino-Soviet split, a move which undermined the WPC's credibility among Maoists and their sympathisers who dominated the New Left in many western countries. The WPC had its headquarters in Helsinki, Finland, at Lönnrotinkatu 25 A, until the 1990s when the Council moved to Greece. In May 2004, the Council held its world congress in Athens attended by representatives of 100 peace groups from around the world. The west and especially the United States, has always maintained that the WPC had been formed by the KGB as a front organization, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies. ==See also== *World peace ==External links== *[http://www.wpc-in.org/ World Peace Council] homepage *[http://www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v08n6p20.htm] "Following the Money Trail at the World Peace Council" Magazine article *[http://www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v08n3p16.htm] "The Ghost Ship of Lonnrotinkatu" Magazine article Peace organizations
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== Formed by the KGB == According to this article, the US has always alleged the World Peace Council to have been formed by the KGB as a front group. Also according to this article, the World Peace Council was formed in 1949. According to the KGB article, the KGB was formed in 1953. Do those who allege that the World Peace Council was formed by the KGB have an explanation for this discrepancy? -- User:Antaeus Feldspar 19:20, 22 May 2005 (UTC) :KGB was not "formed" in 1953, if you read the article carefully. It was just a new name. User:Mikkalai 19:46, 22 May 2005 (UTC) Then KGB really needs to be revised to make it clear, because carefully reading the article told me something different: it told me that the MVD and MGB were merged to form a new MVD, and then the merged MVD was split again to form the new MVD and the KGB. While this certainly indicates a certain continuity of action, it doesn't say "Oh, that was just the KGB before it was called the KGB." I think it would be more appropriate to be precise and say that the allegation is that the World Peace Council was formed as a front organization by one of the two Soviet security agencies that would go into the formation of the KGB later. -- User:Antaeus Feldspar 01:00, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
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