International Association of Friends of the Soviet Union

In 1927 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Russian Revolution with much fanfare.

Supporters of the Soviet Union flocked to Moscow to attend the official Revolution Day festivities slated for November 7.

[6] The Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society was established in 1949 with Dyson Carter as president and Dorise Nielsen as executive secretary.

Lucas was also the founder and leader of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with the Soviet People.

The organisation was intended to be a successor organization to the International Association of Friends of the Soviet Union.

[12] Centered in Chişinău and later in Bucharest, it reunited a sizable panel of communist and non-committed intellectuals, and favored Soviet-Romanian cultural ventures, raising controversy after a delegation led by Alexandru Sahia illegally crossed into Soviet territory to attend the anniversary of the October Revolution.

[16] The Friends of the Soviet Union was established in the United Kingdom in 1930 and was eventually succeeded by the British-Soviet Friendship Society.

[17] In the United States the Friends of Soviet Russia was formally established in August 1921 with Alfred Wagenknecht serving as the group's first Executive Secretary.

With the establishment of the new international association the name of the organization was changed to the Friends of the Soviet Union.