The Komsomol remains alive
The Arkhangelsk Youth Committee will lean on the experiences of the Kosmomol, representatives of the regional administration say. This week the 90-year anniversary of once powerful Soviet youth organization is celebrated all over Russia.
In Arkhangelsk Oblast, a two-week conference is organized in connection with the anniversary, Regnum reports.
Conference organizer Natalya Golubyeva says to the news agency that “the Komsomol has huge experiences within management, work with young people and children” and that this “must be passed on to the young generation”.
According to newspaper Novye Izvestia and Newsru.com, more than 200 million Soviet citizens were in the course of the years members of the Komsomol. The organization, which was heavily state supported, had a wide range of task, from the assistance in major construction projects, to the organization of camps and events and ideological training. It was also an important recruitment organization for the Soviet bureaucracy.
Over the last years, the Kremlin has helped initiate and sponsor several youth organizations, like the “Nashi” and “Maladaya Gvardia”, but none of these have been close to experiencing the influence of the Komsomol.
The Communist Party’s Union of Communist Youth, might today be the biggest of the Russian youth organizations with its 100,000 members.
Komsomol (Russian: Комсомол) is a syllabic abbreviation word, from the Russian Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodiozhi (Коммунистический союз молодёжи), or “Communist Union of Youth”. The organization was established on October 29, 1918.
