Many former Soviet organizations have kept running after the fall, why?
World Peace Organization- Was tasked by the Soviet Union in the 1950's to portray the US as a colonial war-mongering empire, and still follows that guideline today.
Workers World Party- Was originally set up to favorably spin the Soviet invasion of Hungry in the minds of American union workers and African-Americans. It printed it's own, KGB edited, news paper in Bucharest. Since the Soviet collapse it has ventured into the areas of lesbian/gay/bi/trans liberation, organizing protests, and denouncing racism and sexism.
ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)- A WWP off-shoot was the "front" organizer of most if not all of the anti-war demonstration in the US. It is still run by the same Marxist-Leninist folks that run the WWP, but with a name that many on the political left could safely rally behind, the inclusion of "End Racism" in ANSWER's title gives them a certain measure of freedom from political criticism, as no politician wants to be labeled a racist (which, ironically is the 21st Century's version of being labled a communist).
Russian President Vladimir Putin, and most of his cabinet were members of the KGB, Putin himself in the foreign arm of the KGB where these organizations received their marching orders. Keeping that in mind, it seemed odd (or perhaps not) that the German, French, and Russian "summit" on Iraq held in St Petersburg concluded on the same day as the anti-war demonstrations of April 12th.
Knowledge and the admission of these facts are not themselves a return to McCarthyism. It's a fact of certain agenda's within the anti-war movement. I don't believe EVERYONE opposed to the war in Iraq is a card carrying communist, but I feel that most anti-war opinions have been shaped by the efforts of the organizations listed above, among others.
