Definition of the Anti-Comintern Pact

Since the government Communist who had seized power in the Russian Empire and had withdrawn the country from the First World War (which occurred before the founding of the USSR), wanted to extend the revolution proletariat to the rest of the world, the other governments sounded the alarms, all quite forcefully, but some to a greater extent than others.

The "threat Communist Party ”, which would last until the fall of the steel, would be the reason that governments of a totally opposite ideological nature - the right-wing dictatorships - signed a pact to stop the advance of the ideology leftist.

The Anti-Comintern Pact was signed by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1936.

For Germany, it was also a way of getting closer to Japan, given the traditional friendship of the Germanic country with China. The 1935 Franco-Soviet mutual assistance pact also undoubtedly influenced the decision, since it left Nazi Germany in the middle of two very powerful enemies.

However, and with the momentary pre-war alliance and the beginning of the war between Germany and the USSR, the app This pact remained little more than a piece of paper from the outside, although internally the respective communist parties (German and Japanese) continued to be banned and repressed.

The name of the pact is given by the Communist International (Comintern), a body that grouped the communist parties of the different countries and that it sought to spread the revolution throughout the world. world.

This organization caused fear in the ruling classes and upper-middle classes in the countries that signed the pact, which were ordered to stop the international expansion of the ideas of the radical left.

The Nazi attack on the USSR in 1941 breathed new life into the pact.

Hitler saw in the attack to the east a species of new crusade, as some of his allies saw it (Franco, despite maintaining Spain first as non-belligerent, and later as neutral, sent volunteers).

Others, like Mussolini, were drawn into the Barbarossa operation by compromise, since although he was also anti-communist, the operation did not quite convince them on the plane military.

Until 1941, and in addition to Germany and Japan, also Italy, Spain and Hungary had adhered to the pact.

Since the German attack on the Soviet Union, the countries that signed it were: Bulgaria, Croatia (during its brief existence as a puppet state of the Nazi regime), Denmark (occupied by Germany and under heavy pressure to sign), Finland (allied with the Axis only to regain their lands occupied by the USSR), Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, Manchukuo (machú state within China only recognized by Japan and the rest of the eastern countries and allies), the puppet government of Nanking (China in the hands of the Japanese), and El Savior.

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