| Philatelic International (Filintern) | |
| Abbreviation: | Filintern |
| Founding Location: | Moscow, USSR |
| Dissolved: | 1940s |
| Type: | NGO |
| Status: | international association |
| Purpose: | philately, scripophily |
| Location: | Moscow, USSR |
| Region: | world |
| Membership: | 102 members |
| Membership Year: | 1924 |
| Language: | Esperanto, English, French, German |
| Leader Title: | Editor |
| Leader Name: | Leongard Eichfuss |
| Publication: | Radio de Filintern |
| Remarks: | private persons |
Philatelic International (Filintern) was an international philatelic society of collector-workers. It was founded and based in the Soviet Union in the 1920s to 1940s.[1] [2]
The creation of the Filintern was set up at a conference in Moscow in 22 to 30 June 1924. 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:
A program for the Filintern's central organ was developed that included:
Filintern facilitates the goals of philatelists, scripophilists 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. It was an insert included in the monthly magazine Soviet Philatelist or Soviet Collector.[2] Its Editor was a prominent Russian philatelist L. K. Eichfuss. The first issue of the journal appeared in January 1925.[1]