Everything about Young Pioneers totally explained
A
pioneer movement is an
organization for children operated by a
communist party. Typically children enter into the organization in elementary school and continue until adolescence. The adolescents then typically joined
Komsomol or a similar organization. Prior to the 1990s there was a wide cooperation between pioneer and similar movements of about 30 countries, coordinated by the international organization,
International Committee of Children's and Adolescents' Movements (
French:
Comité international des mouvements d'enfants et d'adolescents, CIMEA), founded in 1958, with headquarters in
Budapest.
Overview
In most socialist countries, membership of the pioneer movement is officially optional. Many features of the pioneer movement made it essentially different from
Scout movement, particularly as the Scout movement is independent of government control and political parties. For example, there were no separate organizations for boys and girls. During the existence of the
USSR, thousands of
Young Pioneer camps and
Young Pioneer Palaces were built exclusively for Young Pioneers, which were free of charge, sponsored by the government and
Trade Unions. There were a lot of newspapers and magazines published for Young Pioneers in millions of copies.
Some features, however, are reminiscent of the Scout movement. The two movements share some principles like preparedness and promotion of sports and outdoor skills. The pioneer movement also includes teaching of
communist principles. Opponents of
Communist states claim that this is a form of indoctrination.
A member of the movement is known as a pioneer, and a scarf--typically red, but sometimes light blue--is the traditional item of clothing worn by a pioneer. The pioneer organization is often named after a famous party member that's considered a suitable role model for young communists.
In the
USSR it was
Lenin; in
East Germany, it was
Ernst Thälmann. The
Thälmann pioneers were taught the slogan "Ernst Thälmann is my role model. We wear our red scarf with pride." It is notable, that
Albania, which had severed
diplomatic relations with the USSR since 1961, also had a certain variant of Pioneer organization, called Pioneers of Enver, named after the communist ruler of Albania,
Enver Hoxha.
Countries with Pioneer movements
The Pioneer Movement currently exists in:
Older children could continue in other communist organizations, but that would typically be done only by a limited number of people.
The communist parties in Russia and other countries continue to run a pioneer organization, but membership tends to be quite limited.
Pioneer movements of the past
Albania - Pionieret e Enverit - Pioneers of Enver Hoxha
Bulgaria - Dimitrovist Pioneer Organization "Septemberists". There were also an organization called chavdarcheta - these were the youngest children, which later became pioneers. The difference between the two was the distinctive scarf, which was sky-blue in the chavdarcheta movement and red in the pioneri movement.
Czechoslovakia - Pionýr, part of the Socialist Union of Youth.
Former Yugoslavia - Pioniri
GDR - Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation
Hungary Úttörőszövetség
Malaŵi - Malaŵi Youth Pioneers - this is atypical as Malaŵi wasn't a communist country. Its Pioneers were linked to the Malaŵi Congress Party, the only political party allowed in what was at the time a one-party state.
Norway - Young Pioneers
People's Republic of Poland - 1950-1956, later ZHP, a mixture of Scouting and pioneering
Romania - Pionierii
Soviet Union - Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet UnionFurther Information
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