Comintern
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Comintern
< Russian Komintérn, for Kommunistícheskiĭ Internatsionál Communist International
Example Sentences
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Were it not for the financial and logistical support provided by the Comintern during this period, Ms. Salter suggests, the CCP might not have survived long enough to win control of the country in 1949.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
After a series of injuries while fighting on the Eastern Front, he accepted an assignment at Comintern headquarters in Moscow.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
The Comintern inaugurated a Popular Front across the West, comprised not just of working-class parties but also middle-class reformers.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2019
When the Soviets directed Comintern to appeal for volunteers around the world to fight in Spain, more than thirty thousand signed up, from more than fifty countries.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 18, 2016
The American Ambassador's daughter here told him that you are an agent of the Comintern.
From The Five Arrows by Allan Chase
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