Фонд „Москва“ (Международен фонд за подпомагане на леви работнически организации) 1950–1991
The “Moscow” Fund (International Fund for Assisting Left-wing Workers’ Organizations) 1950–1991

Summary/Abstract: The practice existing in the period between the two World Wars when the Communist International by funds of the Soviet State rendered financial assistance to (and in practice maintained) the whole world communist movement was transferred also to the period after the Second World War. But now together with the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in the consistent financial assistance to the communist and left-wing workers parties and organization participated also the communist parties from the countries which after the Second World War found themselves in the zone of Soviet influence. In order to give organized appearance to this aid and to ensure financial maintenance to the parties and the principal kinds of their party-political activities, the CC of the All-Union Communist Party (B) of July 1950 decided to set up an International Fund for Assisting Left-Wing Workers Organizations which later became known as the “Moscow” Fund. Besides the All-Union Communist Party (B), members of the Fund became the Chinese Communist Party, the German Unity Socialist Part, the Polish United Workers' Party, the Czechoslovak workers’ Party and the Hungarian Party of Labour. The BCP entered the Fund in 1958. In 41 years of the Fund’s existence in it were invested and distributed among more than 80 communist and left-wing parties and organizations nearly 600 million USD, 500 million of them being contributions of the CPSU. In 30 years of participation of the Fund the BCP paid 11600000 USD. Thanks to the Fund Moscow turned into a centre which financially bound all communist, worker’s parties and left-wing revolutionary organizations with the CPSU and with the communist parties in the former socialist countries. The financial dependence on Moscow made the communist and left-wing workers’ parties and organizations more susceptible to influence. For the CPSU the Fund was also one of the opportunities and guarantees for spreading the communist movement in the word and for strengthening the influence of the “Socialist Camp” on the international arena.

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