Mondpaca Esperantista Movado

The Mondpaca Esperantista Movado (MEM) (English: "World Peace Esperantist Movement") was an Esperanto association founded in 1953 in Austria by Rudolf Burda. Its aim was “to use the Esperanto to serve the peace and the reciprocal understanding between the peoples”. Its official magazine was PACO.

From 1959 to 1963 the vicepresident of MEM was Eŭgeno Bokarev. In 1983, it began to collaborate with the UEA.

During the cold war, MEM was able to make official activity by and for the Esperanto in socialist countries, but had to commit with the local communist governments, and the Soviet standpoint[1].

References

  1. ^ Peter Glover Forster, The Esperanto movement, Mouton Publishers, The Hague, 1982, p. 399. 413 pp.