World Peace Council

Not to be confused with World Peace Congress.

Membership in the World Peace Council:
  National affiliates
  Affiliates of the International Federation for Peace and Conciliation
  Countries with both national affiliates and the IFPC

The World Peace Council (WPC) is an international organization created in 1949 by the Cominform and propped up by the Soviet Union.[1] Throughout the Cold War, WPC engaged in propaganda efforts on behalf of the Soviet Union, whereby it criticized the United States and its allies while defending the Soviet Union's involvement in numerous conflicts.

The organization had the stated goals of advocating for universal disarmament, sovereignty, independence, peaceful co-existence, and campaigns against imperialism, weapons of mass destruction and all forms of discrimination. The organization's propagandizing for the USSR led to the decline of its influence over the peace movement in non-Communist countries.

Its first president was the French physicist and activist Frédéric Joliot-Curie. It was based in Helsinki, Finland from 1968 to 1999, and since in Athens, Greece.

  1. ^ Dobrenko, Vladimir (2024). "The Soviet "Struggle for Peace," the United Nations, and the Korean War". Journal of Cold War Studies. 26 (1): 29–49. doi:10.1162/jcws_a_01190. ISSN 1520-3972.