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Vintage Pioneer Czech Scouts Flame of Independence Stage 1 Pin Badge
Vintage Pioneer Czech Scouts Flame of Independence Stage 1 Pin Badge
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- A silver coloured metal pin badge 2.6cm wide with a safety clasp style pin fastener to the rear.
- From the Czechoslovak pioneer movement
- Featuring a campfire on a white field. The badge is an award for multiple skills that you accumulate on a pioneer camp. As you gain skills you progress in the 'Flames of Independence' path. Usually one stage per camp.
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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.
CSM membership was considered necessary for entrance to university or a professional career, so people often joined up regardless of their political leanings.
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