Label of WIR (IAH) | |
Founded | 1922 |
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Founder | Comintern |
Dissolved | 1933 (in Nazi Germany) 1935 |
Focus | "Provide a Left-wing counterweight to the generous relief supplies sent to Soviet Russia by the ARA and other bourgeois agencies." |
Area served | worldwide |
Method | Charity and Taxation |
Key people | Willi Münzenberg |
The Workers International Relief (WIR) — also known as Internationale Arbeiter-Hilfe (IAH) in German and as Международная рабочая помощь (Mezhdunarodny Rabochy Komitet Pomoshchi Golodayushchim Rossii − Mezhrabpom) in Russian — was an adjunct of the Communist International initially formed to channel relief from international working class organizations and communist parties to famine-stricken Soviet Russia. The organization, based in Berlin, later produced films and coordinated propaganda efforts on behalf of the USSR.