The position of the Comintern from the Ruhr Basin crisis 1923-1924

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The leaders of the Comintern were interested in European revolutionary mobility in general and Germany in particular, and considered it a means of exporting the socialist revolution.
The French occupation of the Ruhr basin was an opportune moment to prepare the German proletariat to seize power and declare the establishment of a "German-Soviet state." However, the role of the leaders of the Comintern in directing these movements was negative. Vladimir Ulrich Ulyanov, known as Lenin at the Third Congress of the Comintern, approved the policy of the united labor front, in order to enable the communist parties affiliated with him to win the majority of the "proletariat" on its side before attempting to seize power.
During the French occupation of the Ruhr basin, the leaders of the Comintern forced the leaders of the Communist Party of Germany to try to apply the contents of the united labor front with the German Social-Democratic Party before attempting to seize power. However, the position of the Social Democratic Party, which refused to give the Front the time needed for the Gustav Stresemann  government of  to contain the German revolutionary movement, led to the failure of the revolutionary movement after several days.

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