Rainer Santi , in his history of the International Peace Bureau , said that the WPC " always had difficulty in securing cooperation from West European and North American peace organisations because of its obvious affiliation with Socialist countries and the foreign policy of the Soviet Union . Especially difficult to digest , was that instead of criticising the Soviet Union 's unilaterally resumed atmospheric nuclear testing in 1961 , the WPC issued a statement rationalizing it . In 1979 the World Peace Council explained the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as an act of solidarity in the face of Chinese and US aggression against Afghanistan . " Rob Prince , a former secretary of the WPC , suggested that it simply failed to connect with the western peace movement because it used most of its funds on international travel and lavish conferences . It had poor intelligence on Western peace groups , and , even though its HQ was in Helsinki , had no contact with Finnish peace organizations
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1961 Soviet nuclear tests
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