Kiental is a village in the Bernese Oberland

Bernese Oberland

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 in the canton

Cantons of Switzerland

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 of Bern in Switzerland

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. Kiental enters the annals of world history due to the Kiental Conference held in 1916.

History

Kiental Conference
At the beginning of September 1915 the first anti-war conference of internationalists

Zimmerwald Conference

The Zimmerwald Conference was held in Zimmerwald, Switzerland, from September 5 through September 8, 1915. It was an international socialist conference, which saw the beginning of the end of the coalition between revolutionary socialists and reformist socialists in the Second International.-...

 was held in Zimmerwald

Zimmerwald

Zimmerwald was until 31 December 2003 an independent municipality in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. It is located on a hill in the proximity of the city of Bern in the Bernese Mittelland...

 at about 50 kilometres (31.1 mi) from Kiental. Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...

 formed the Zimmerwald Left

Zimmerwald Left

The Zimmerwald Left was a revolutionary minority fraction at the Zimmerwald Peace Conference of 1915, headed by Lenin. The Left of the Zimmerwald Congress was made up of eight out of 38 people: Lenin, Zinoviev , Jānis K. Bērziņš , Karl Radek , Julian Borchardt , Fritz Platten , Zeth Höglund and...

 group and called this conference the "first step" in the development of an international movement against the war. The next conference was held in Kiental from 24 to 30 April 1916. Lenin and the Zimmerwald Left presented a resolution, but the conference concorded only a "compromise" manifesto as the result of an agreement between various conflicting groups. The manifesto drawn up by the Kiental Conference was an advance on the Zimmerwald Manifesto and helped to crystallize the internationalist elements of whom the Communist Third International

Comintern

The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern, also known as the Third International, was an international communist organization initiated in Moscow during March 1919...

was subsequently formed.