Abstract
Abstract This chapter introduces a letter to Moscow from the Communist International (Comintern) personnel file of Yusuf Salman Yusuf (1901–1949), an Iraqi communist leader known as Fahd (“Leopard”). The letter was likely written between September 1942 and May 1943, while Fahd was general secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP). Written in coded form and in English to evade Iraqi censors, the letter complains of a rival organization and seeks to keep the Communist International from recognizing this splinter group as the representative of Iraq’s communists. The letter illustrates the confusion of Iraqi communists amid the Soviet Union’s fast-changing alliances in World War II.
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