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Komsomol: Shaping true communists… and capitalists

Published: 29 October, 2008, 06:24


‘We will make them fit for communism’ – that's what Bolshevik leaders thought when they created the youth organisation Komsomol 90 years ago. Back in the days of the Soviet Union, October 29 was an official holiday for its members.

 
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