The "popular front" movement after 1935 showed intellectuals and activists growing in support for "Communism".
The Popular Front time frame arrived at an end with the Molotov– Ribbentrop settlement between Nazi Germany and USSR, and soon thereafter Comintern parties turned from an arrangement of anti-fascism to one of supporting peace. Numerous Comrade party individuals quit the party in nauseate at this bargain between Hitler and Stalin.