Christian Peace Conference

The Christian Peace Conference was an international organization based in Prague and founded in 1958 by Josef Hromádka, a pastor who had spent the war years in the United States, moving back to Czechoslovakia when the war ended. Hromádka was a member of the Bureau of the World Peace Council.[1] He was not a Marxist, but the Christian Peace Conference often endorsed positions taken by Eastern bloc governments.[2] It has been allleged to have received $210,000 from Soviet sources.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Roberts, E.T., Communist Hold On "Christian" Peace Movement, 1964
  2. ↑ Ramet, S.P., Protestantism and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia, Duke University Press
  3. ↑ Richard Felix Staar, Foreign policies of the Soviet Union, Hoover Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8179-9102-6, pp.79-88
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