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3 unusual facts about Zimmerwald Conference


Oddino Morgari

In 1911, Morgari inaugurated his activity as a "diplomat of Socialism" with a trip to the Far East, which would become his main preoccupation in the years of World War I; he took part in preparing the Zimmerwald Conference, celebrated the October Revolution and Bolshevist Russia, and signed the April 1, 1919 letter that declared the PSI adherence to the Comintern.

Reichenbach im Kandertal

At the beginning of September 1915 the first anti-war conference of internationalists was held in Zimmerwald.

Zimmerwald Conference

From there they left in four coaches for the small town of Zimmerwald some nine kilometers (6 miles) away.


Social Patriotism

At the International Socialist Conference at Zimmerwald the social patriots were identified as "the openly patriotic majority of the formerly Social-Democratic leaders" in Germany, as well as the group around Kautsky.

Zeth Höglund

In 1914, when World War I broke out, Zeth Höglund together with Ture Nerman represented the Swedish-Norwegian members of the Zimmerwald Conference, the international socialist anti-war movement which gathered in the small Swiss village of Zimmerwald.


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