In May 1947 Joseph Stalin decided to dissolve the Comintern, also called the Third International. It was an organisation uniting the communist parties all around the world. Thanks to its functioning the Soviets, who pulled the organisation’s strings, were able to control communist activities in different parts of the globe. The parties who formed the Cominterm were considered to be Moscow spies and not without reason. However, the course of World War II and the disposition for closer cooperation between the West and the Soviet Union forced Stalin to bring about its dissolution. This was his way of showing “good will” to the Americans and British, pointing out that the world communist revolution was no longer in his sphere of interests. But the war finally came to an end, and along with it, Stalin’s “good will”…