The bloc was founded on 7 December 1937, when the newspaper
Pravda announced the establishment of a political association of communists and non-party members before the
1937 Soviet Union legislative election, According to Ilya Zemtsov, one of the bloc's goals was to create the appearance that political repressions were carried out in the interests of the people and led to the establishment of people's democracy, although non-party members were carefully selected and approved by party organizations. The emergence of such an alliance was due to the fact that the Communist Party, in order to create the illusion of alternative or democratic elections, had no one to form an alliance with, as other political forces were banned, and the
Komsomol, which had previously been nominated in the elections, was an openly subordinate force, lacking even the semblance of autonomy. Because of this, they were deemed unsuitable for an alliance, so the Communist Party could only create the appearance of democracy by forming an alliance with ephemeral non-partisan forces, which, although a priori lacking unity or their own structures, can create a semblance of democratic procedures. ==References==