Talk:World Peace Council

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? -- 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. 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. -- Antaeus Feldspar 01:00, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

The KGB/FSB , a rose is still a rose...--Tomtom 23:46, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

The lead of this article is clearly POV and "hagiographic" (yes, I know this article isn't about a person) and needs to be rewritten. There is a multitude of sources which point out that this was nothing but a Soviet front organization. See sources listed here.radek (talk) 01:47, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

I would strongly oppose having such an approach. The Cold War was a period of mutual antagonism. If we give promince to US claims that any opponents of their policies were Soviet spies, then what about Soviet claims that any opponents of their policies were CIA agents? Allegations_of_Soviet_influence_in_Western_peace_movements is essentially a POV fork, and you could probably create similar POV fork articles such as 'Allegations that Solidarność was a CIA/Vatican front group' using same logic and only Eastern Bloc sources. --Soman (talk) 09:02, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

But we're not here to fight the Cold War but to document what's found in reliable sources. And the stuff about the WPC is definitely in such sources, as is the stuff in the linked article. I don't see how it is a POV-fork - of what? Also, IIRC Solidarnosc did get some money from the CIA (and maybe the Vatican - though "Vatican front group" is sort of silly) (I might be confusing things - I know there was a semi-famous provocation involving Michel Foucalt as a supposed CIA agent or something) but receiving funding and being set up as a front organization is two different things.radek (talk) 09:19, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Year of creation

According to Andrew Brown, "J. D. Bernal, The Sage of Science", page 336 the WPC was created in Warsaw on November 1950, not 1949 as in the article. It is true that the organization started before that under another name (Partisans for Peace) on April 1949. Avihu (talk) 19:50, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

The WPC was a Soviet Front

There is so much evidence that the WPC was a Soviet front organization, that the current wording of this article is ludicrously false. Suggest it be re-written completely.

I can't agree more. The comment in the previous section, that "If we give promince to US claims that any opponents of their policies were Soviet spies, then what about Soviet claims that any opponents of their policies were CIA agents?" completely misses the mark. It is not a US claim that the WPC was a KGB front group, it was documented in the Soviet archives that were opened after the Soviet Union's dissolution. To pretend otherwise, and not to mention that crucial fact in the first sentence of this article, is ludicrous.

As to claims that other organizations were funded by the CIA, those claims -or facts, if proof is available as it is with the WPC -should be made in Wikipedia articles on those other organizations.

This article takes Wikipedia's credibility down a notch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.103.129.197 (talk) 06:44, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

I have added info about its direction by the CPSU and its collapse in the late 1980s when the Soviet Union withdrew support. Marshall46 (talk) 10:08, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Separated history from discussion of WPC as a Soviet front organization. Marshall46 (talk) 20:23, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Undid. It is not possible to separate the WPC's history from its function as a Soviet front organization. Marshall46 (talk) 12:40, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Added more. Histories of the WPC make it clear that it was not only pro-Soviet and anti-American, but also hostile to peace organizations that did not take the side of the Soviet Union. Marshall46 (talk) 12:29, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

That is incorrect. It would be more accurate to say that it had an uneasy relationship with organizations that did not take the side of the Soviet Union. From the late 1950s it recognised that it had to collaborate with the new non-aligned peace movements, but many of them were critical of the Soviet Union. Pelarmian (talk) 12:52, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

What is WSG?

The test says "At the same time, the Soviet-sponsored and Communist-dominated WSG did not condemn similar Soviet actions in Hungary, Afghanistan or elsewhere." This is the only reference to WSG in the article, and I can't find anything in the article it could stand for.  Randall Bart   Talk  04:34, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Congresses

Section begun. Incomplete. Marshall46 (talk) 16:29, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Needs more references

I have added a lot to the article, using internet sources, but there are still some unreferenced statements from earlier versions. There is little information on the web about the WPC's Congresses, which probably went unnoticed, despite their size, because they were known to be little more than expressions of Soviet foreign policy. If anyone has access to printed material, such as reports of Congress proceedings, their contribution would be welcome. Marshall46 (talk) 10:57, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

World Peace Esperanto Movement

I removed from the list of mass organisations the World Peace Esperanto Movement, mentioned as a WPC supporters in Staar and in U.S. Congress, House Select Committee on Intelligence, Soviet Covert Action: The Forgery Offensive, 6 and 19 Feb. 1980, 96th Cong., 2d sess., 1963, Washington, DC: GPO, 1980. Although the World Peace Esperanto Movement was allowed to operate in eastern Europe on condition that it supported Communism, it was not set up by the Communist Party. Esperanto was at best tolerated in the Communist bloc and was banned in the Soviet Union. Marshall46 (talk) 12:44, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Poland

I'd think Poland was a member under the communist regime, having also hosted the 1948 event. When did it leave? Should be at least in the former members section, likely. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:51, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

I'm not sure that any nation states were members. Members tended to be Peace Committees, which were Communist Party fronts; so there may been a Polish Peace Committee. We need a source for this. Pelarmian (talk) 18:43, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

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World Peace

I have some great idea's for establishing permanent world peace. I need only one conference with top ininternational spirituals leader's without any personal identity. Partap Singh Rana (talk) 01:10, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Activities

I am dubious that the US State department called America and its allies "the United States and other imperialist, fascist nations." Regardless, the 'insidethecoldwar.org' reference for it doesn't seem to go anywhere. 64.135.138.177 (talk) 11:13, 3 September 2024 (UTC)