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Vintage Czech Pioneer Youth Association Zavod Miru Bicycle Peace Race Pin Badge
Vintage Czech Pioneer Youth Association Zavod Miru Bicycle Peace Race Pin Badge
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- An gold coloured metal pin badge from the former communist Pioneer Movement. The badge face is 2.2cm in diameter and has a long, stick pin style fastener to the rear. Featuring the text 'Zavod Miru Pionyru' and featuring a bicycle wheel with the pionyr flag logo
- The Zavod Miru or PEACE RACE was a non professional bicycle race held in Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia launched immediately after World War 2. This would have been from a Pioneer event that emulated the famous bike race.
- From the Czechoslovak pioneer movement
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After the 1948 takeover of power, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSC) formed two Soviet-style youth organizations: the Pionyr (Pioneers) for youngsters eight to fifteen years old and the Czechoslovak Union of Youth (CSM) for ages fifteen to twenty-five. Both organizations were geared toward grooming their members for Communist party membership.
The Pionyrs were very much like the boy scouts, but the CSM were more politically focused.
