[1][2] The original name of the movement was Interfront (International Front of Workers in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic), which was changed to Intermovement in autumn 1988.
These included e.g. the engine factory Dvigatel, Kalinin's and Pöögelmann's electrotechnical plant Tondi Elektroonika, and the (especially but not only phosphorite) mining industry in Northern Estonia.
[citation needed] According to critics, the movement's aim was to protect the conservative Soviet values and make everything possible to block the actions of the Popular Front.
[8] One of initiators of foundation of the Popular Front R. Grigorjan afterwards gave the following evaluation: One cannot say that everything in the ideas and slogans of the Intermovementians was wrong.
Or, that the Russian-speakers will be deprived of political rights (citizenship) and turn into second-class people, that Russian schools will be closed etc.
However, the central government determined the majority of the population did not participate, and demanded the Narva city council, which had provided material support to separatists, to disband.
[18] It was supported by Gustav Naan and Vladimir Hütt; Intermovements ranks also included Arnold Sai, Lembit Annus and Valter Toots.
[20] Pyotr Rozhok, a participant of the Intermovement, became a LDPRF politician in 1990s [21][22] before running as Stalinist Bloc candidate in the Russian legislative election in 1999.