Mondpaca Esperantista Movado

MEM sign from 1986

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 its vice-president was Eŭgeno Bokarev. In 1983, it began to collaborate with the World Esperanto Association (UEA).

During the cold war, MEM was able to conduct official activities on behalf of Esperanto in socialist countries on the condition that it supported for 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.
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