- Not to be confused with Workers International Relief (aka Mezhrabpom), established by the Comintern in 1921 to channel international aid to Soviet Russia during the famine.
International Red Aid (also commonly known by its Russian acronym
MOPR) was an international social service organization established by the
Communist International. The organization was founded in 1922 to function as an "international political
Red Cross", providing material and moral aid to radical "
class war"
political prisoners around the world.