Vera Afanasyeva: "Pioneer Dawn"

"May 19 is the birthday of a pioneer organization, it appeared in 1922. I remember a lot of fun about pioneering from my childhood, I liked being a pioneer. Or maybe I just liked my childhood? But the main thing in the pioneer is an ideology, a certain education of those who had to grow in Soviet citizens," writes Vera Afanasyeva professor at his page on his page on Facebook .

“And the first principle is collectivism. And how to be individualists, they are even among children? The second principle is militancy, because it is not mugs, but units. The detachment is easy to attack those few who think or do otherwise. The third principle is to follow the ideas of communism, the spread of party myths. And it was done consistently and skillfully.

So I, it seems, was not the most stupid child. And our house was 20 sq.m; And the toilet was on the street; and mom chopped firewood after work; And the column froze - I had to go far for water, I dragged a bucket of water from childhood; And I had to do lessons in a coat after school; And they lived 70 rubles.

Fasters and patches were familiar, and I received tangerines one per year - in a gift from Santa Claus. But I was a pioneer, and in the mornings, listening to the “pioneer dawn”, I thought: “What happiness that I live not in America, but in the Soviet country! And then my mother would be unemployed, but I would have been looking for trash.”

The main thing is positive in Pioneer - she demanded good studies. And it was very important.

And now there are detachments of young unicorn and even young police friends. But the pioneering is no longer and will not be - that former. But she made things, this pioneer, fulfilled her mission - she raised those generations that are accepting today - joyfully accept what is happening in the country.

She was strong, Pioneer. "