In Paris in 1935, the International Anti-Fascist Congress of Writers took place, led by, among others, Romain Rolland, André Gide, Andre Malraux.

[2] Well-known intellectuals such as Stepan Tudor, Yaroslav Halan, Oleksandr Havryliuk, Leon Kruczkowski, Kuzma Plekhatyi, Halina Górska, Adolf Berman and others took part in preparing the Congress.

The Anti-Fascist Congress became a link of this chain of events, and set the goal to express solidarity between intellectuals and workers.

During the meeting, the Congress Hall was decorated with a portrait of Maxim Gorky, who along with Romain Rolland and Heinrich Mann were elected to the Honorary Presidium.

«... the struggle against the imperialist war, for peace, is the first primary responsibility of all progressive workers of culture»The resolution, unanimously approved, urged the intelligentsia of Poland, Western Ukraine and Western Belarus to participate in a nationwide struggle against Nazism, to stop the preparation of a war against the USSR, for the free development of science and culture.

The Association of Railway Bookstores Ruch, which had a monopoly on the distribution of the press, issued a circular forbidding the distribution of communist newspapers - Chłopskie Jutro, Język Międzynarodowy, Kultura Wschodu, Lewar, Lewy Tor, Literatur, Oblicze Dnia and Przekrój Tygodnia - previously available in normal sales.

Years later, historians of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine regarded the Congress as a great success for their policies.