Talk:Workers International Relief

This entry on International Workers Relief is largely adapted from the article on the German-language wiki found at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationale_Arbeiterhilfe. My translation skills are not the best, so there may be some errors as a result of simplification or misunderstanding. DJ Silverfish 14:17, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:21, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Who decided to abolish WIR?
Babette Gross wrote in her Münzenberg-Biography (Stuttgart 1967) that in 1935 the Russian CC (which normally should be the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) decided to abolish WIR. This contradicts the proposition that it has been a decision of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. What is more probable?141.13.170.175 (talk) 18:19, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Lenin's part
The assumption that "the Workers International Relief was created in Berlin on September 12, 1921, in response to a call by Lenin, in order to recruit international support in response to a drought and famine in the Volga area", needs some verification. In most publications you will find the version as published in the article "Russian famine of 1921": "Although no official request for aid was issued, a committee of well-known people without obvious party affiliations was allowed to set up an appeal for assistance. In July 1921 the writer Maxim Gorky published an appeal to the outside world, claiming that millions of lives were menaced by crop failure." And afterwards this committee has been punished by Lenin.141.13.170.175 (talk) 18:33, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

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