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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

YOUNG PIONEERS I

YOUNG PIONEERS I


YOUNG PIONEER
HONOR GUARD MEMBER
NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA, 1984
BACK IN THE USSR

SHE TOOK HER DUTIES VERY SERIOUSLY.

On May 19, 1922, the Young Pioneer Organization of
the Soviet Union was founded; it was formally known
as the Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization.

The Young Pioneer Organization continues
today in Russia. (See a Reuters photograph
here -- the second in the slide show.)

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