Comintern

noun

Com·​in·​tern ˈkä-mən-ˌtərn How to pronounce Comintern (audio)
: the Communist International established in 1919 and dissolved in 1943

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But during World War II, Stalin disbanded the Comintern in a desperate bid to please the Americans, and the sabotage operations abruptly ended. Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2024 Toss in a connection to Monsanto, the Masons, the Comintern, and the Kardashians. Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 24 July 2024 Stalin’s Kremlin, through the global influence of the Comintern, funded a boatload of American culture. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2023 At the Sixth Congress of the Comintern, in the summer of 1928, there was a major debate about how best to agitate for Communist revolution among African Americans. The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021

Word History

Etymology

Russian Komintern, from Kommunisticheskiĭ Internatsional Communist International

First Known Use

1921, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of Comintern was in 1921

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“Comintern.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Comintern. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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