International Federation of Resistance Fighters – Association of Anti-Fascists

The International Federation of Resistance Fighters – Association of Anti-Fascists also known by its French initials FIR (Fédération Internationale des Résistantes - Association des Antifascistes) is an organization of veterans of the anti-Axis resistance fighters, partisans, members of the anti-Hitler coalition. During the Cold War, it was a communist dominated organization that furthered the policies of the Eastern Bloc.[1]

History

The FIR was founded in June 1951 in Vienna. It was formed by an earlier organization called the International Federation of Former Political Prisoners; the latter organization had been founded in Paris in 1947.[2] (Other sources say 1946[3])

Organization

General Assemblies

Members

Red countries have at least one member of the FIR

See also

References

  1. ↑ Facts about international Communist front organisations pp. 85-6
  2. ↑ Facts about international Communist front organisations p. 85
  3. ↑ Hoover Institution Yearbook on international communist affairs 1966 Stanford, Calif., Hoover Institution Press. p.511
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Yearbook on international communist affairs 1966 p.513
  5. ↑ Bulletin of the International Federation of Resistance (FIR) – Association of Anti-Fascists #12 November 2007
  6. ↑ Bulletin of the International Federation of Resistance (FIR) – Association of Anti-Fascists #19 February 2010
  7. ↑ Successful congress in Sofia
  8. ↑ "DRAFD e.V. - Verband Deutscher in der Résistance, in den Streitkräften der Antihitlerkoalition und der Bewegung "Freies Deutschland" e.V.". Retrieved 2014-04-09.

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