Another Call for Moscow to Create Something like Komintern to Overthrow Existing World Order

Paul Goble

            Staunton, July 15 – In May, Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, suggested that Moscow should draw on the experience with the Komintern to unify those around the world who favor overthrowing the world order “created and remains dominated by the West” (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/moscow-should-draw-on-history-of.html).

            Now, in an indication that his words are gaining a following in the Russian capital and may even lead to the creation of such an organization, Roman Trunov, a Nezavisimaya Gazeta journalist, says that the Komintern serves as a model for the kind of alliance of parties and groups that can serve Moscow’s interests now (ng.ru/ideas/2024-07-16/8_9050_comintern.html).

            While acknowledging that the situation is different today than it was a century ago and that the Komintern was not without its problems, Trunov like Naryshkin insists that such a union can help both all of its parts, on the one hand, and Moscow, on the other, to achieve their common goals.

            Given that any such project would likely emerge out of the SVR rather than more publicly from the Kremlin, it is uncertain just how much Putin would acknowledge its existence or rely on it openly; but the appearance of Trunov’s article suggests that there is now a push to create something, even if it stays within the shadows of Russian espionage activities.