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Cominform|ˈkɒmɪnfɔːm| [Russ., f. the first elements of the Russ. forms of communist and information.] An information bureau set up in 1947 by the communist countries of eastern Europe for the interchange of experience and coordination of activities and dissolved in 1956. Also attrib. and transf.
1947in Amer. Speech (1949) XXIV. 73 The cominform, an information bureau set up by the Communist parties of nine European countries. Ibid., Considering both Mexico City and Montevideo..as headquarters for a ‘Cominform’ in the Western Hemisphere. 1948Ann. Reg. 1947 73 The announcement on 5 October of the formation of the Cominform, with a co-ordinating office in Belgrade. 1957R. N. C. Hunt Communist Jargon p. xii, In his Cominform speech of September 1947 Zhdanov declared [etc.]. 1958New Statesman 6 Sept. 265/2 The new Cominform is in business, and its business is the publication of a new journal from which Communists all over the world will take their cue. Hence ˈCominˌformist, a supporter of the Cominform; spec. a Yugoslav Communist who advocated the return of Yugoslavia to the Soviet bloc, after its expulsion in 1948; cf. Titoist; also attrib. or as adj.
1955H. Hodgkinson Doubletalk 48 A journal run by Cominformist Yugoslavs in Prague. 1975Financial Times 7 Nov. 7/4 Popular ignorance about the real meaning of the often-used term, Cominformists or informbirovci is such that already, years ago, at an opinion poll, many young people said Cominformists were some kind of African tribe. 1976Survey Winter 62 The position does after all still have significance, as was shown by..the arrest of the pro-Soviet Cominformists only a month before Herljevic's appointment. 1984New Yorker 12 Mar. 97/1 As the seventies continued, hundreds of people—most of them in Croatia, Kosovo, and Bosnia-Herzegovina—were convicted of ‘Cominformist’ sympathies or activities, of various crimes ‘endangering the territorial integrity and the independence of Yugoslavia,’ or of spreading ‘hostile propaganda’. |