Soviet poster : honest pioneer.

Before becoming a pioneer, it was necessary to stay October. In October, took in the 1-2 class, October detachments led by counselors from the pioneers or members of the Komsomol. Admission to the pioneers was usually held at the end of the third grade, on May 19, on Pioneer Day. Although more often done so: the best (honors, athletes, etc.) took April 22, the birthday of Lenin, the bulk - on May 19, and all the twins and dunces still late, in the last days of May. It was insulting enough: everything is already in pioneer ties, and you, as a sloupok, with the October asterisk.
Who from the Soviet pioneers, does not remember the unrest with which he was preparing to join the ranks of a mass socio-political organization? How did they tie scarlet ties to the sounds of the horns and drums? How for the first time in our life have we solemnly sworn loyalty to the cause of Lenin and the Communist Party? The Soviet country did not regret anything for the young. Beautiful Pioneer Palaces and children's camps were built. The very activity of children's communist organizations in the USSR and other socialist countries was of such serious proportions that even surpassed in importance its "bourgeois" prototype and analogue - the Scout movement.