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When he delivered one of his trademark careful pronunciations — “Comintern,” “Argentina” — it seemed not showy but respectful.

Reports on Poum members were drawn up by the International Brigades’ branch of the military intelligence service, which was led by members of the Moscow-based Communist International, Comintern.

After a series of injuries while fighting on the Eastern Front, he accepted an assignment at Comintern headquarters in Moscow.

Zinoviev, who had been a member of the first Politburo, in 1917, and the head of the Comintern, said, “My defective Bolshevism became transformed into anti-Bolshevism, and through Trotskyism I arrived at Fascism.”

Unsurprisingly, many of the most prolific anti-communists were also committed segregationists who violently fought black-led labor and civil rights organizing in the south, accusing members of groups like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of being dupes for the Comintern.