Soviet Young Pioneers (1922-91)

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The Soviets realised how the scout movements could effectively unite and educate children, so on the 19 May 1922, the ‘Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization’ or in short the ‘Young Pioneers’ was created.
The Soviet organization would be for children aged 9 to 14.
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[@juanmam.2113]

Not gonna lie, the simulated capture the flag battles with smoke grenades sounds really fun

[@saavageturtle4121]

Yeah

[@lolmeme69_]

I agree

[@kyon05]

I wish i could do that and use armored vehicles.😂

[@oseansoldier]

Hence why I play airsoft

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Oh Yeah.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

We have young pioneers but we call them the Korean Children’s Union. The children love me

[@fatkid66]

I bet they do

[@microscopicdickxx_isisdest5346]

Cool. I would love to visit your country.

[@yurikimjongil]

Dont Forget Me and your Grandfather

[@sauce790]

No they dont

[@ehansalman8461]

Kim Jong-un you mean *us*

[@sergiob9281]

I was a kid in the USSR during 70-80-s. By then membership in the pioneer organization became pure formality. Apart from a red tie there was not much difference from non-pioneer children. BTW participation was pretty much mandatory. Only during summer camps we had war games and other activities. Year around we had lots of after school activities not connected with communist propaganda, such as sport of your choice, music, drama classes etc. And it all was free of charge of course. I myself went to a chess club. Overall it was a happy childhood.

[@thangrobin2858]

Sergio B agree sir, I’m from Vietnam and I used to attend it, it was actually very different

[@crqf2010ruler]

Interdasting

[@daviscampbell9020]

Thank you for the input, & additional info. Take care good sir. :) I have only heard & read about it. But it's nice to hear from someone who went through it.

[@aysuta3299]

Мог бы и на русском)

[@asoru5573]

You are a lucky man, born in the USSR, became the citizen of the USSR that must be a great memories.

[@darrendavies5704]

When you spend your life training as a German stormtrooper and a 12 year old girl headshots you.

[@NatRevKitty]

Bruh moment

[@banzaiperson]

It's like the Soviet version of being the guy who got necked by Mad Jack Churchill's longbow.

[@Risen_Star]

12 year old girl: Ha, cyka, git guud.

[@ZackyVillain]

Girls are not given guns in most commie states. Female soldiers usually just be assigned the tasks like dancing and singing to raise the morale.

[@rosaria8384]

That's how Battlefield V works, but if Russians were added.

[@Scorpian-oi4xp]

My father was a member and he told me about how he had to sing songs all about Lenin songs which glorified communism

[@blitz8260]

Communism is good

[@sal6419]

The rainbow of life 978 No its not. Fascism is better.

[@SouthCom1917]

Funny, we used to sing songs about how great America is when I was in the Scouts. Maybe because those groups would obviously sing about their respective countries. Weird that.

[@sergedenisov9135]

My father told me that he HATED summer camp plays, having to sit through them and being a part of them

[@blitz8260]

@@sal6419 i will send u to the gulag. Communism is the best

[@Collectorfirearms]

December 25, 1991- I can't WAIT to go to my poineer meet next week!!!

[@crylec6534]

Realize the nation fell* Federation Time

[@oihanlz.deluzuriaga7096]

F

[@markperacullo7541]

F

[@quocvietophu1627]

Oof

[@jacklong1844]

Be prepared.

[@roliboros1007]

In hungary: Little Drummers - Age 7-9 Pioneers - 9-14 Hungarian Communist Youth Association - Political students

[@santaspicy2553]

Dirty Rat my dad was one of them

[@alvarogarcia6015]

How I was?

[@mysticgeneie4668]

Better dead than red.

[@user-cf1xs8ew9l]

china too

[@bbcmotd]

Literally everyone who was in the pioneers misses that concept and wants it back.

[@lovepeace9727]

True

[@svetko05]

Just like how the vast majority of people miss their childhood.

[@koksu5692]

Recommunisation

[@yoboikamil525]

Espically the fun at camps

[@oscarpalmquist3216]

If they miss fun and camps they can be scouts. Detail: scouts are NOT communists

[@cartetic5589]

"2 years of military instruction every week"

[@georgehall7749]

Communism is obviously very efficient! Lol

[@tymonm452]

Fun fact: In Sovirt Union time is so efficient that during one week two years pass.

[@nnattalleo]

45 min class every week for pupils grate 8-10

[@captainfreedom3649]

in Soviet Union, time travels you

[@TheManinBlack9054]

Soviet Union needed a lot of soldier in case of the war and plus boys will be then drafted to the army when they would reach 18 yo

[@stanleyyyyyyyyyyy]

Pioneers were in the whole communistic block, not just in SU.

[@vladislavbg9307]

True

[@onrr1726]

They still exist in China and in most countries that are still communist today.

[@nobleactual7616]

Communistic?

[@user-mu5iu3vm8d]

In yugoslavia as well

[@Nekromageofapocalyp]

In czech republic most pioneer groups either dissbanded or changed organizations (to boycouts and such), however few group still remin as pioneers

[@gafuraskarov2814]

My parents were pioneers! That was kinda fun actually, but it was in the 70s when everything in ussr became peaceful

[@koksu5692]

Gafur Bekzatkhan putin needs to do recommunisation

[@comradekenobi6908]

@@koksu5692 I think it's impossible

[@koksu5692]

@pd 69 just screw it

[@koksu5692]

@@comradekenobi6908 sadly it is. But Putin is slowly making Russia greater again, thankfully

[@koksu5692]

@@comradekenobi6908 nothing is impossible with communism my friend.

[@luke._.9270]

Nobody: *Communist kids :playing battlefield in real life* Well that sounds fun ....

[@arandomhungarian1659]

These were not really true. It was only for children from special schools, like military and sailor schools. Smoke grenades were pretty expensive, and were rarely used. Capture the flag was really widespread, but it wasn't war themed. They also didn't use any tanks, or air rifles, only in the bigger countries (russia and poland).They only needed to wear the uniform (neckerchief, etc.) on special occasions, such as meetings, end of school year parade, and other stuff like visiting other schools. Camps with other countries were super rare, and only occured like once a decade, and even then, not with all of the countries. In the other warsaw pact countries (NOT USSR) The second to fourth graders wore a blue neckerchief. In russia however they wanted to keep the tradition and the youngers didn't get them. Every camp was free, and they were mostly just normal camps. If they studied good,they got a ticket to the camps. Source: parents and grandparents.

[@saber251]

that's not true .dude.🤣

[@omega0195]

And you think that's ok?

[@siyacer]

Useless nobody

[@Awfulfeature]

*you think war is fun?*

[@mcgyllikudi76]

I would have joined the boy scouts if I could have driven a tank

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

Same here...

[@cyberglitcher4659]

Man it really looked fun

[@n-gaming4056]

Yes...

[@WyvernApalis]

@Tac0sales Man nuclear submarines blyatv

[@piraetje675]

@Nik Nik not sure if bullshitting us or you're serious

[@firstclassjackass9126]

Can you guys do a video on the hitler youth plz?

[@ol6040]

@Cyrus Farmer jeez.

[@zacharycrater2588]

Greatest youth group. It taught my pa what it means to be a man.

[@badreny]

Cyrus Farmer this displeased his father, who then punished him severely

[@OwentheKingofDudes]

@@badreny Nice Biographics reference.

[@lampuhijau9900]

Jojo rabbit...

[@richardlovering1291]

No hate but the scout movements in pre revolutionary Russia did not originate from the USA they originated from Great Britain maybe you could do a history of the Boy Scouts that would be good.

[@Damo2690]

Well for one only in USA are they called Boy Scouts, most of the world they're mixed gender so at least they got that part right

[@ramel684]

@@Damo2690 In the UK scouts were single gender up until the 1990, and then it was up to the local groups to decide if they would allow girls until 2007

[@levvy3006]

This is an American propaganda channel

[@tazzioboca]

@@levvy3006 hahaha

[@anaxagoras2930]

@@levvy3006 Bro is max level pseudo intellectual

[@onrr1726]

I was in boy scouts when I was kid. My 2ed scout master was a former pioneer in the USSR and was ex Spetsnaz. His name was Yuri for the most part me and the other boys in the troop learned a great deal from him. He supported and pushed us to learn and accomplish our goals. If we failed he took the time to reassess things find other ways to teach us so that we got the job done. Camping trips were often the best as he took great care to show us how the army did things.

[@Bigchilezlife]

Please do "The Great Escape From Alcatraz" 1963. That would be good

[@thestemtutor319]

yes i would like that too

[@sauce790]

Me too

[@acebalistic1358]

My grandmothers neighbor was the mother of 1 of the escapees. Their house was flooded with cops and interviewers every day for weeks, and she fought paparazzi for months

[@xenuvelo64]

The Alcatraz escapees didn’t die they went to pack a punch

[@thestemtutor319]

Tyler McDaniel wow thats crazy amd cool at the same time

[@marksmanGrey]

Yugoslavia had young pioneers as well My dad got a red handkerchief.

[@t-lore140]

interesting

[@andrpaulino]

Commie

[@user-mu5iu3vm8d]

Yeah my mom too

[@marksmanGrey]

Serbia-Montenegro

[@user-mu5iu3vm8d]

@@marksmanGrey im from macedonia

[@no-if1ol]

6:32 "the pioneers would also learn to use a gas mask and learn how to give first aid from to someone suffering with radiation." Not gonna lie, these pioneers are badass.

[@Horitsvet_Alexander]

pretty much all russian students are similar to that. i literally was taught how to use a musket gun in grade 4 when i was 10💀

[@Macavity]

As someone who has Russian parents, I want to say that pioneers actually were happy with pioneership

[@austrianguy7813]

Me:''Oh jesus what a Adoctrination'' 5:58 ''During summer camp teams of pioneers compited in massive war games'' Me: *WHERE DO I HAVE TO SIGN TO JOIN?* (edit)Thanks for likes

[@AdamRWest]

Man the Soviets got one thing right

[@tonikaycheney7120]

I would gladly participate in those war games

[@Viktor-jn2vs]

Communism is a lie. Embrace democracy or you will be eradicated.

[@osedebame3522]

r/BoneAppleTea

[@kabob0077]

War games you say? This gives me ideas...

[@mrgarland5210]

"First aid to those suffering radiation sickness" Unholsters pistol

[@arthurmorgan2418]

*remembers the price of bullets and unsheathes knife*

[@mrgarland5210]

@@arthurmorgan2418 *remembers a knife is no way for a comrade to die* Unsheaths vodka bottle

[@arthurmorgan2418]

@@mrgarland5210 *remembers that vadim drank all the vodka* Pulls out sausage nunchuks

[@williamhe1967]

Maxim Gun *remembers than Wong ate all the sausages* _Pulls our slipper_

[@arthurmorgan2418]

@@williamhe1967 *realizes that hes not even wearing slippers* grabs cool stick ivan found

[@ceylaneleroglu]

2:23 your face when you look at your phone at 3 am and the brightness is up on 100

[@Tasos04252]

😂😂

[@oddballtv712]

I was today years old when I realized that I shared a birthday with Vladimir Lenin...

[@das3610]

Inb4 is reincarnation of lenin

[@kelt6330]

Go on son finish it spread communism

[@takashi.mizuiro]

lol

[@zechariahtaylor6341]

On my birthday oct 10 auschwitz happened mass children murder and on the year and day a suicide car bombing happened oct 10th is not a good day i realized

[@jagunggeming9382]

My birthday is hirohito's birthday

[@dann-y8320]

Little October- *hears parents gonna try to escape communism* *Next day* Little October- My parents are gonna escape communism! Scout leader- Hold my *vodka*

[@direwolfkaniz9192]

US : Don't use children as your political tools China : *Monkey puppet look away*

[@dann-y8320]

😂

[@Sol_Invictus_]

*our vodka

[@aaronkaplan5974]

Our parents*

[@Rkenichi]

HAHAHAHA FUNNY MEME HOLD MY BEER HAHAHAHA

[@asakapala12345678]

I heard Pioneers used to eat coral, hitchhiking and riding a big boulder.

[@sabresergal8989]

You deserve extra likes

[@WolfCourtaud]

No, they eat tide pods and use neutral gender pronouns.

[@vengefulfork7169]

Yep, you would be right, when it came to boulders the pioneers would ride those babies for miles

[@BRITISHBATMAPPING]

vengefulfork LOOK SQUIDWARD, ITS A ROCK, A BIG BEAUTIFUL ROCK *cries*

[@sombodatouchamyspaghett4055]

*SLAPS TOP OF ROCK* This baby can cover so much fucking ground

[@camrindelvalle2145]

As a proud American I would say that I like how they taught kids to be proud of your country

[@drened8502]

They should encourage these programs nowadays in every country. Teach kids to be loyal to their fatherland, God and family, as well as teach them all the useful life skills.

[@CrafterboeyMiner]

@@drened8502 we have that. Civil air patrol.

[@matthewcollins4764]

Dre Ned I am not too patriotic we do have many flaws but yes I do understand that it is a bit more free here. It is always dumb when people go to war with a country because of patriotism basically colonialism

[@TheManinBlack9054]

How can you be proud of your capitlist colonialist country? They were proud of their country because it was a country of Lenin's ideals, country of communism. Not because it was simple the country they happened to be born in. You are proud of being slave of capitalism, they were proud of being free, see the difference?

[@deeeenisttv]

You guys think it's acceptable to indoctrinate children? Weird

[@kcocozza]

Who noticed that From Russia With Love was playing in the background

[@birbor]

a yes james bond songs never gets old

[@user-jh5wh6dv8m]

2:52 I'm from Ukraine and one man , veteran of WWII that I met at school said that they were named "The children of war" He was pioneer too.

[@hairyetiy5087]

Unbrilliant Strategy I have also noticed a few minor mistakes too

[@user-lo7qj6op4i]

Unbrilliant Strategy im also Ukrainian слава Україна!

[@395leandro]

@@user-lo7qj6op4i Glory to the heroes!

[@jurisprudens]

If he was a "child of war", it means, he was a kid during the WWII. He was, technically, not a veteran.

[@andrewpash955]

Unbrilliant Strategy пiздiшь

[@seanthesock5063]

capture the flag with real armored vehicles, smoke bombs and more. sign me up!

[@tango5thetargeted73]

Da

[@colourfulmartin4329]

And if someone were to run the opposite direction,then they’ll be executed by firing squad

[@mohammadnooriman4185]

@@colourfulmartin4329 really?!

[@hahabrown6596]

Я комментирую по русски чтобы никто меня не понял now why would someone run away of such fun?

[@braydencanada9928]

sean the sock There are games like that to this day in Europe but you have to be older.

[@lovepeace9727]

Someone here also was a pioneer? Good freaking times.

[@anaglavcic7954]

My dad was but in Yugoslavia

[@urhsusnikvrecic1478]

@@anaglavcic7954 mine too

[@goofy4188]

You must be old

[@deniskunts6931]

My mother used to be a pionier and she still tells me stories of what she used to do and this video reminds me of her.

[@oliveradams1270]

Kind of sounds like she's gone, so if so sorry for your loss

[@johnsmith6974]

In Soviet Russia you no join boy scouts. Boy scouts joins you

[@foxtrothermite6499]

Yeah that happened during ww2 shen they joined the army

[@crqf2010ruler]

Reversal Russa sobre Escoteiros - Desciclopédia

[@AdamRWest]

No no boy is you

[@gmoneyperez2276]

Can you make a video about Hiroshima and nagesaki And what lead up to it?

[@Simplehistory]

Yep we will do that

[@gmoneyperez2276]

@@Simplehistory thank you

[@gmoneyperez2276]

@@Simplehistory by the way you guys are like my idle besides family

[@tuxbutxb2622]

How long before the bombs were dropped had the Japanese been warned to evacuate the cities by the Americans?

[@gmoneyperez2276]

@@tuxbutxb2622 they started evacuating when they say the plane

[@woodbag80]

General:we probably need to invest our money in the army The government:COMMUNIST BOY SCOUTS

[@Ake-TL]

Sharkyplaze productions investing too much money in military was one of things that crippled union

[@koksu5692]

Акежан Толеухан it lives within our hearts comrade. Dont fret

[@michaelhowze8198]

The Government: Is fine comrade well get capitalist pigs to pay for army

[@yifeichen8448]

These uniforms reminded me the school uniforms that I have to wear when I was at school in China.

[@MM-br3gt]

All socialist country's children wear this type of Uniforms . Because they are socialist country's

[@commishork8436]

@Внук Ельцина in china you either wore your school uniform or just casual clothes, wearing the red tie was only for special or formal occasions like athletics carnival or school assembly or flag raising ceremonies and stuff like that

[@bakagg757]

5:40 "2 years of military instruction every week"... wow they trained hard

[@davidcoleman2463]

Lmao

[@auregamer5]

THAT IS THE POWER OF THE SOVIEEET UNIOOOONN URAAAAAAAAAAA

[@supmodel]

Idiotic joke

[@oranges866]

Kommie Kid's Klub Coincidence? -I- WE think yes.

[@osamabeanballin5957]

MuchGreatness WE think so

[@utahraptor4729874]

KKKommunism...

[@JaneNayes]

@@utahraptor4729874 Those things are completely opposite.

[@ArcturusOTE]

*Insert nervous Krusty laughter at the Apollo theater, you lads know that scene*

[@utahraptor4729874]

@@JaneNayes I'm meming lol.

[@xxcalijrxx2686]

Let's be honest, being a Pioneer sounds fun.

[@StufiBuy]

There is something adorable about the little octoberists. I imagine a bunch of eight year olds marching around and chastising their parents bourgeois ways.

[@agentepolaris4914]

Agree, I'd really love to see that

[@thepielord7201]

Daddy u having democratic sympathy guess it’s to the gulag for u

[@bohdanivanov1309]

@Внук Ельцина Не сильно помню, но Павла задушили его родственники, родственников убила власть, а его отец с "ГУЛАГ"-а вернулся живым. Но сам не помню, да лень искать информацию.

[@sorryforprojectingmyparent6402]

@@bohdanivanov1309 а пропагандисты сделали из Морозова "героя", хотя он был жертвой

[@arandomhungarian1659]

These were not really true. Smoke grenades were pretty expensive, and were rarely used. Capture the flag was really widespread, but it wasn't war themed. They also didn't use any tanks, or air rifles, only in the bigger countries (russia and poland).They only needed to wear the uniform (neckerchief, etc.) on special occasions, such as meetings, end of school year parade, and other stuff like visiting other schools. Camps with other countries were super rare, and only occured like once a decade, and even then, not with all of the countries. In the other warsaw pact countries (NOT USSR) The second to fourth graders wore a blue neckerchief. In russia however they wanted to keep the tradition and the youngers didn't get them. Every camp was free, and they were mostly just normal camps. If they studied good,they got a ticket to the camps. Source: parents and grandparents.

[@tacowilco7515]

I was Octobrist. I was told that Lenin was kind of Soviet version of Santa Claus.

[@crylec6534]

How was life like in that point of your life

[@DefyDistrict]

my mother was in the youth and she loved it.

[@davidcoleman2463]

Lmao . He was like Jesus .

[@maximilianomadrigal6661]

Are you still a communists?

[@tacowilco7515]

@@crylec6534 That was a time when I used to be in the first - second grade so I don't remember negative moments. I just remember there used to be an order before 1991 and then everything fell apart. The first indicator was - all street lights got broken all of the sudden and then it went downhill from there. This is just my childhood perception of things.

[@stormynight3397]

Can you talk about my home Space??

[@lolxd4khd141]

Are you free for colonization at 2024 or better other day?

[@saratoga4126]

It's SPAYCE comrade

[@TiredOfYoutube]

If you see Tim Curry, tell him I said Hi.

[@saratoga4126]

That's Chancellor Cherdenko comrade

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

i hope it gets colonized and your martian race get raped by our supoerior quickscopers

[@thesickman8964]

What did you do this summer? Me: well.... It all started when I went to a red camp

[@christiniakollar8397]

In most country’s there is Girl Scouts selling cookies In mother Russia there is pioneers selling mini nukes

[@user-co3uc8vt7e]

Selling nukes is what smugglers do, tovarisch.

[@strakhovandrri]

O, do the Russians long for war? Ask of the stillness evermore, Ask of the field, or ask the breeze, And ask the birch and poplar trees. ‎ Ask of the soldiers who now lie Beneath the birch trees and the sky, And let their sons tell you once more Whether the Russians long for war. It's only a piece of the poem, and it was - and I believe still is - in the school programm.

[@sooryan_1018]

I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK

[@lefrenchaudir188]

Lancaster grand slam?

[@lefrenchaudir188]

Shhhhuuuuuuuuuuuuuu and boom

[@Spig7]

ok now do the hitler youth.

[@christopherdempsey3878]

I was just thinking the same thing.

[@dhtelevision]

- Oh I hope.

[@linguisiclion26lion70]

Yea it would actually be interesting

[@suothdaej5500]

manchester police what about the 6 million jews that were killed by facists such as yourself?

[@voskoff7]

@@suothdaej5500 ah the 6 million. the modern religion that all people, even Utopian communists worship.. tell me, is it the number of people that died or the TYPE of people that your actually crying over. because if its a number thing i dont think you want to play that game

[@hfdshrimp3973]

You had me at “competed in war games”

[@BloxxterT]

I loved the video and I Like the u iform thank you simply history.

[@KochamPL]

you’ve gotten so much better at animation!

[@benchmarking6875]

Shout out for the blond guy at 2:22 that is on the right of stalin behind the kid in front

[@falcon4186]

Tbh it sounded like fun (after the war of course).

[@olizawisza1597]

Super video!

[@m3a2uploads3]

great vid!!

[@bor_7992]

Sounds like something I would join if it still existed instead of wasting my life on the internet

[@spicyair710]

Why don't you pick up a musical instrument, get into airsoft/paintball, and go camping.

[@cheers9503]

@@spicyair710 I agree

[@ardaduck735]

@@spicyair710 fees are expensive for economically unfortunate people

[@boomerisadog3899]

@@ardaduck735 I grew up poor, raised by my grandparents who were on disability. I learned early on that if I wanted something I had to earn it and those lessons have served me well. I'd much rather live in a country that strives to provide equal opportunity than equal outcomes.

[@ardaduck735]

@@boomerisadog3899 meritocracy doesn't exist anymore lol

[@Emeterioffroad]

-Soviet Pioneers: ready to defend the motherland. -Actual teenagers: crying to mom becouse they want the new iphone.

[@thepurrfectionist365]

Virgin capitalist kids vs. Chad Soviet pioneers.

[@monkhead7217]

nandog1941 chad jrotc kid vs Virgin Soviet pioneers

[@Jnbsksbsgcvn]

did that statement gives you a climax?

[@madmarvshighwaywarrior2870]

Its not just *the* new iPhone, it's *our* wePhone now

[@monkhead7217]

Vrotlex no I’m a freedom maker

[@thomasplouffe326]

Honestly this sounds really fun, I was in Boy Scouts but the caniadian version was called cub scouts, you started as a beaver (ages 4-6) a cub 6-10) then a venture (ages 10-17)

[@ThePancakeman96]

Simple History: Chernoby If possible, please. Thank you!

[@bboy7656]

Chernobyl*

[@grouchygrizzly366]

Obi-wan Chernoby

[@bboy7656]

@@grouchygrizzly366 and general cancerous

[@grouchygrizzly366]

mechanizedorca love it hahaha!

[@Pedro1745]

86 likes, i like that it matches the disaster's year

[@HateTaxesWASt]

5:40 "from 1968, two years every week" I think you may have meant 2 hours.

[@marcusp863]

I wondered if I was the only one confused by that statement haha

[@imperialloyalist4799]

DO NOT QUSTION THE SYSTEM! IF SIMPLE HISTORY SAYS ITS TRUE, THAN IT IS!

[@nottoday3817]

That's communist propaganda, don't believe it. It might have been either every week for two years or as you say 2 hours every week

[@Nathan-pq9wj]

Maybe he meant training for 2 years, 1 day for each week of those 2 years

[@toddhoward3846]

Cool *our commie Boy Scouts, Er I mean gender neutral scouts

[@bruhmoment6947]

Todd Howard god dammit Todd

[@donovancervantes8066]

Mega oof

[@andrewe.2464]

*_our_* commie scouts.

[@lk851]

Todd Howard god dammit Todd

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

I rather have this in essence than the scouts.

[@mememan7575]

"Elmo's gonna dance,FOR THE MOTHERLAND!"

[@Hxoibrixks]

I see a man of culture

[@changingupmychannelforabit9554]

when you train for months for your weird mustache leader only to get killed by a 14 year old with a PPSH-41

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Young Pioneers, like the infamous tour group that takes foreigners to North Korea and Turkmenistan

[@wrangle123]

probably what its named after, their website has a lot of communist symbolism on it.

[@wrangle123]

@@olbradley www.youngpioneertours.com/north-korea-tours/

[@mikeyholland150]

@@olbradley fr?

[@mikeyholland150]

@@olbradley that's funny

[@franciscoroman7290]

Damn I see u in a lot of comment sections

[@brandonfarley2228]

Series suggestion:cold war factions

[@Simplehistory]

Good idea!

[@brandonfarley2228]

No prob!👍

[@ivanelias3916]

excelent idea

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

@@Simplehistory Can you do the Korean people's army to start it of? It's like the only army that is still truly communist.

[@brandonfarley2228]

How bout the Indonesian army

[@kvnmcinturff1]

My ex-wife was a member of the Young Pioneers. She received a special citation for being the most accurate grenade thrower. 😉

[@Nobody-nc5ij]

Coooll

[@bigboi4269]

She could yeet the bang pineapple gud?

[@ThirdCultureChinese]

I went to elementary school in China and we also had young pioneers (少先队). Very much the same model, but it felt like just a form of formality when I attended. There were no summer camps, no parades, no pins or uniforms, no classes on defending the motherland, just the red neckerchief (红领巾). Our motto was also "always ready/prepared."

[@Tony-pm5xo]

We still have this in China today (without the war practice part). When I was a kid I lost my red tie so often I had to carry a backup one in my schoolbag. Damn I grew up fast ...

[@post_moves8568]

I'm guessing the propaganda was crazy high?

[@Tony-pm5xo]

@@post_moves8568 Yeah communism does that. And since YP no longer teachs kids to fight, propaganda basically become its only purpose.

[@truongchau56]

I brought like 10 to school and sold it to kids who did not have the neckerchief before mandatory Pioneer meeting at 2 times the market price ...

[@bigusdickus9903]

Post_Moves The thing is, you can preach a bunch of 7-9yr olds whatever you want, but they will forget everything you said when they hit puberty lol.

[@imperialloyalist4799]

F a k e

[@HitmaNBAST]

portuguese and spanish volunteers to the axis in ww2 please

[@ivanf.482]

They were in the Waffen SS i think. Waffen SS were made up of many nationalities

[@ivanf.482]

@dark creepypasta and Italians, slavs , french , baltics , arabians ,finns , scandinavians and even British

[@matro2]

Blue Division was Wehrmacht, but after Franco called it back some of them Joined the Waffen SS.

[@Emperroroffire]

My mother loved pioneer camps when she was a kid. According to her, it was really amazing.

[@jaquaviontaviousbonquequex9066]

4:26 Lets gather round the camp fire and sing our camp fire song! Our C O M M U N I S T S O N G Song! And it would just help if you sang along.

[@user-dh2ev9sc4c]

As mother told me, they sang one or two communist song as obligatory, and then just singing any kind of popular songs, like Tsoy's, Akvarium's and others

[@henrybayha1063]

Fasinating, thank you!

[@Imperialloyalist510]

A Slavic boy/girl scout camp

[@battledroidofficercode.3525]

What the world thinks of the Soviets Union: “it all dark people dieing left and right and no food for the people.” Simple history: “hold my beer.”

[@jaypea30]

C H I L D S O L D I E R S

[@imonlyherebecauseofmemes1991]

Why do Stalin's eyes look like they're closed at 2:16?

[@vashj212]

Because he relies his safety on comrade Pioneers

[@dragomouche]

Did your father punish you severely

[@imonlyherebecauseofmemes1991]

@@dragomouche [long pause] yes

[@femf1372]

Sun was in his eyes and his eyes only

[@LAV-III]

@@dragomouche this enraged Adolf's father who punished him severely

[@MoiBoi0]

Love the vids!

[@Germ_f]

not gonna lie, being a Young Pioneer sounds fun

[@sethstankus4984]

Hey I really like the videos you guys make! I was wondering if you could do one on the history of operation Northwoods.

[@lidulkadut]

This actually sounds fun, not gonna lie

[@lidulkadut]

fenrar36 what’s food?

[@anthonyc4138]

@@lidulkadut lol

[@Codreanu_Prezent]

@fenrar36 They did have food. Do you want a link to the CIA document on calorie consumption between the USSR and the USA during the cold war?

[@zezex3116]

@@Codreanu_Prezent yes plz

[@Codreanu_Prezent]

@@zezex3116 Here you go: www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp84b00274r000300150009-5

[@_-Xenon-_]

Ah yes, the communist version of Boy Scouts....

[@post_moves8568]

Excellent username

[@hussar5329]

boy scouts is american version of pioneers*

[@uncledolan9271]

@@hussar5329 Gender neutral Scout* kek

[@chair5728]

Matthew La martik finally, someone said it.

[@boostergold20]

@@hussar5329 nope boy scouts came first.

[@captainemerald3762]

Now I can't stop thinking of the song in the background in the beginning as the Derpfestor song from Starcrafts season 6

[@loyalshits]

Which is the name of the song?

[@Nietabs]

1:08 Why he's legs are longer than his body? (komsomol)

[@Kuraimizu9152]

Going to war games at the cost of saying Hail Lenin three times a day? Where do I sign?

[@LmaoZedong554]

*Gives u a sheet of paper* sign *here.... Here and here* and ur good

[@henryc8879]

Cost of saying hail Lenin? You mean the BONUS OF SAYING IT

[@quocvietophu1627]

Also getting higher education

[@comradekenobi6908]

@@quocvietophu1627 Did the Vietnamese have something like Pioneers too or no? They're a communist country too!

[@muntadar1655]

@@comradekenobi6908 I know this is like 6 months old but yes they do have pioneers

[@faven5916]

Hey, simple history I just want you to know that I love you channel.

[@d-4073]

Simple History would you do a video on the defense of Brest Fortress?

[@susannaaivajeedas9492]

Actually I lived in the USSR during the collapse. The Soviets valued and treasured children.

[@NapoleonBonaparte96]

They were so loved that their nation brainwashed them and did not allowed critical thinking or any real criticism of their government. Don't bullshit people. I come from a communist country (Cuba) and as soon as we learned to write they started making us write about how great and perfect our leaders were.

[@revanamell1791]

Even with your Red Scare commentary the Young Pioneers sound awesome.

[@clunston]

It is very red scare isn't it. Got on my nerves a bit

[@alejandroramos1924]

Pioneer: So how do we station a sandbag? Military Instructor: You are the sandbag

[@aleksanderkireenko9276]

that's excellent stilization! best regards

[@adalarii]

Nice video comrade

[@morgun6678]

The scouts are from Great Britain not the United States

[@Snailybob]

There's a difference between The Scouts and Boy scouts

[@morgun6678]

@@Snailybob yeah but the scouts still originate from UK and not the US

[@snoweefrost4412]

@@morgun6678 Nope! Manifest Destiny! We made them, teadrinker, just like we made the brown bess and tank. Damn I love America.

[@Marcus280898]

Robert Baden-Powell is recognised as founding the Scout Movement, he wrote a book on scouting based on his experiences in the British Army and held the first scout camp on Brownsea Island, Dorset, England in 1907. The British Boy Scout and Girl Guides movement was then formed in 1910 and quickly inspired similar movements in other countries

[@Snailybob]

@@morgun6678 yeah I know mate, but the video wasn't referring to the British scouts was it, it was referring to the yank ones

[@pongo9290]

I’m pretty sure the scouts came from Britain not the United States but ok

[@pongo9290]

Luke Harvey that was a taster camp with the boys brigade the first one was some where in Northumberland

[@aw8f629]

in Iran, after revolution used this ,my mother was part of pioneers

[@MACSOG300]

I loved this video, you can make a video about the army of southern Vietnam (ARVN) and what were your special forces please, regards

[@door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978]

*Eisenhower: heavy breathing*

[@R_eagan]

0:14 The animation is hilarious. 😆

[@Barabel22]

5:40. From 1967, 2 YEARS of military training was required every week... LOL, I think you’re off by a bit.

[@jamesbednar8625]

Good video!!! Need to see something about, "The Philadelphia Experiment".

[@somerandomsovietdude7269]

Our Soviet pioneers are ready to defend our motherland UURRAA brothers My pioneers have done well

[@Kuingar]

Didn't the USSR have an absolutely absurd defection rate with up to a million joining the Nazis?

[@somerandomsovietdude7269]

Kuingar And you know what happened to them They got yeeted off the planet by soviet forces in Berlin

[@Kuingar]

@@somerandomsovietdude7269 And then immediately the USSR promptly shat itself when they realised they had overstepped straight into the twin barrels of the British Empire and the United States. Couldn't even get nuclear weapons without proving Hitler right, either.

[@somerandomsovietdude7269]

Kuingar Yeah they were sorta in a tough spot A Real tough spot

[@kaidenbooker8359]

Thank you for giving me all this nolage

[@ejnys8779]

Im from Czech republic, my mom and uncle was pioneers when they was youth, mom told me story about when she was 13 and her brother 14 they went to pioneer camp in Russia. And they even couldnt speak Russian. I was so excited to listen about it back than :)

[@belzebusk]

Best times for my parents . I wish the time comes back

[@adamscott7354]

And have more Chernobyls happen? No you don't

[@Kriegmann45]

Fk the USSR

[@overwatchelite4083]

@@Kriegmann45 Mmmm... Ever wondered getting killed by a communist 12 year old while invading the USSR? USSR Might be evil but ah yeah. USSR Was powerful than USA at that time

[@Lulu_Lime]

@@adamscott7354 Yeah because nuclear plant failures are exclusively to only one country. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

[@adamscott7354]

@@Lulu_Lime They fail more where the materials are cheaped out on, ie, communist countries, China, Russ / USSR etc

[@alexisarteev-salazar9247]

My dad didn’t join the young pioneers and he still got to go to the best aircraft engineering university in the Soviet Union.