Its formation was greeted by all branches of the All-Russian Society of Philatelists and at the same time by the Soviet Esperantists.

At the conference opening, Feodor Chuchin, the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily, declared: Within the Filintern and through it we will not only adhere to all the rules of international philatelic ethics but also watch to make sure others uphold them.A program for the Filintern's central organ was developed that included: Filintern facilitates the goals of philatelists, scripophilists[d] and Esperantists.

Within Filintern, they could: Using philately, scripophily and Esperanto, the Soviet authorities also hoped for promoting communist propaganda among the foreign proletariat.

[1] Filintern received a further boost from the SAT (Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda) Congress of 1926.

[2] The Philatelic International's organ was the journal Esperanto: Radio de Filintern.