Communist frontとは 意味・読み方・使い方

A Communist front is an organization alleged to be a front organization under the effective control of the Communist International, the Communist Party USA, or other totalitarian Marxist organization. Called "mass organizations" by the Communists themselves, these groups were prevalent from the 1920s through the 1950s, with their use accelerating during the so-called Popular Front period of the 1930s. American Peace Mobilization, a front group active before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II as an advocate of peace but which rapidly switched positions after Operation Barbarossa and transmogrified itself into a patriotic organization supporting the war, American Peoples Mobilization, is a transparent example. The term has also been used to refer to organizations not originally communist-controlled which after a time became so, such as the American Student Union. During the cold war the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS) investigated and listed a number of suspected organizations.