October 29, 1918 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the All-Union Leninist Communist Union of Youth. On this day, an organization was created that was able to rally around itself the most progressive youth fighting for socialism.
In 1917, after the February Revolution, the Bolshevik Party emerged from the underground, a massive influx of workers and soldiers began. The increase in the number of parties has raised the question of the need to create a youth organization that would educate and forge young cadres for the party. Across Russia, labor youth unions began to arise. Bolshevik youth demanded the introduction of a 6-hour day and the labor protection of adolescents, the right to participate in elections from the age of 18, opposed the continuation of the imperialist war. Especially large organizations emerged in Petrograd and Moscow, in other industrial centers. The May Day and subsequent demonstrations of workers became a show of forces, including the Bolshevik youth, who led out their columns.
Young workers took an active part in the October Revolution. On the eve of the uprising, Lenin wrote: “To single out the most decisive elements (our“ drummers ”and working youth, as well as the best sailors) into small detachments to occupy all the most important points and to participate them everywhere, in all important operations ...”
In the battles on the streets of Moscow, in the battle for the socialist dawn over the country, the 20-year-old organizer of the youth workers' unions Lyusik Lisinova perished. From the cadets of the cadets, 14-year-old Pavlik Andreev died on the barricades of the Moscow Gavroche
Komsomol was born in the flames of civil war. Socialist unions of working and peasant youth arose throughout the country. Joining the youth union meant getting not only a ticket, but also a rifle.
On October 29, 1918, delegates from different cities came to Moscow for a general congress. It was founded by the Russian Communist Union of Youth (RKSM).
Up to 200 thousand Komsomol members fought against the White Guards and interventionists in the ranks of the Red Army. Among them were the future writers Arkady Gaidar and Nikolai Ostrovsky; both were at the front from the age of 14. On the doors of the Komsomol district committees it was often possible to see the announcement: “The district committee is closed, everyone has gone to the front.” After the defeat of the main forces of the counter-revolution, the Komsomol members in the ranks of the special-purpose units (CHON), together with the senior comrades of the party, finished off the white bandits.
After the Civil War, the Komsomol was faced with the task of training working-peasant youth for peaceful, constructive activities. In October 1920, the 3rd Congress of the RKSM was held. The leadership for the Komsomol was Lenin's speech at the congress on October 2, 1920, “The tasks of the youth unions”. The main goal of the Komsomol, Lenin saw, was "... to help the party build communism and help the whole young generation to create a communist society." Komsomol directed all efforts to rebuild the national economy that was destroyed during the civil war. Young men and women participated in the restoration of the factories of Petrograd, Moscow, the Urals, the mines and factories of the Donbass, and the country's railways.
In September 1920, the first All-Russian youth work day was held. Komsomol members assisted the Soviet government in the fight against speculation, sabotage, banditry. In 1929, the Komsomol conducted the first youth mobilization on new buildings of the 1st Five-Year Plan. Over 200 thousand members of the Komsomol came to the construction site on tours of their organizations. With the active participation of the Komsomol, the Dnieper Hydroelectric Plant, the Moscow and Gorky Automobile Plants, the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine, the Turksib railway, and others were built. the five-year plan for the development of the national economy ... "The Komsomol was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 was a severe test for the entire Soviet people, its younger generation. The Komsomol, all Soviet youth, at the call of the Communist Party, fought against the Nazi invaders. In the first year of the war about 2 million Komsomol members joined the ranks of the Red Army. Unprecedented courage, bravery, heroism showed Komsomol, boys and girls, defending from the enemy Brest, Odessa, Sevastopol, Smolensk, Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Stalingrad, other cities and regions of the country. Only the Komsomol organization of Moscow and the region in the first 5 months of the war sent over 300 thousand people to the front; 90% of the members of the Leningrad organization of the Komsomol fought against the Nazi invaders on the outskirts of the city of Lenin. Young partisans and underground fighters of Belarus, the occupied regions of the RSFSR, Ukraine, and the Baltic states were fearlessly operating in the rear of the enemy. Guerrilla units for 30-45% consisted of Komsomol members. Unprecedented heroism was shown by members of underground Komsomol organizations - “Young Guard” (Krasnodon), “Guerrilla Spark” (Nikolaev region), Lyudinov underground Komsomol group, etc. In 1941–45. in the Komsomol entered about 12 million boys and girls. Of the 7 thousand Heroes of the Soviet Union under the age of 30, 3.5 thousand are Komsomol members (of which 60 are twice Heroes of the Soviet Union), 3.5 million Komsomol members were awarded orders and medals. The names of the Komsomol members who fell in the fight against the fascist invaders: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Alexander Chekalin, Liza Chaykina, Alexander Matrosov, Victor Talalikhin, the Young Guard: Oleg Koshevoy, Sergey Tyulenin, Ivan Zemnuhov, Uliana Gromova, Lyubov Shevtsova and many other numbers. courage, heroism. For outstanding services to the Motherland during the Great Patriotic War and for the great work of educating Soviet youth in the spirit of selfless devotion to the socialist Fatherland of the Komsomol by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on June 14, 1945 he was awarded the Order of Lenin.
The Komsomol invested enormous work in restoring the national economy destroyed by the fascist invaders, in the construction of Minsk, Smolensk, Stalingrad, in restoring Leningrad, Kharkov, Kursk, Voronezh, Sevastopol, Odessa, Rostov-on-Don and many other cities, in the revival of industry and cities of Donbass, Dneproges, collective farms, state farms and MTS. Only in 1948, by the forces of youth, 6200 rural power stations were built and put into operation. Komsomol showed great concern for the placement of children and adolescents without parents, the expansion of the network of orphanages and vocational schools, and the construction of schools. In 1948, the Komsomol celebrated its thirtieth birthday. On October 28, 1948, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded the Komsomol the Second Order of Lenin.
The Komsomol took an active part in the implementation of measures developed by the party to lift agriculture. Thousands of young specialists, workers and employees, graduates of secondary schools were sent to state farms, collective farms, MTS. In 1954–55 over 350 thousand young people left for Komsomol on the development of virgin lands of Kazakhstan, Altai, Siberia. Their work was a real feat. By the decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet for active participation in communist construction and especially for the development of virgin lands of the Komsomol on November 5, 1956, he was awarded the Third Order of Lenin.
The history of the Soviet Komsomol is inextricably linked with the history of the Soviet Union. Therefore, the occurring negative processes in the USSR were reflected, including within the Komsomol.
The years 1955-1964 are called the “Khrushchev thaw” in our country. The thaw in essence consisted in the weakening of society’s control over itself. The very perception of the world has changed. For an example, refer to the quotes.
January 26, 1924, speaking at the II All-Union Congress of Soviets, I.V. Stalin said: “Comrades! We, the Communists, are people of a special warehouse. We are tailored from a special material. ” This is from the famous "Oath of Stalin." In the party and in the Komsomol, many were faithful to its principles. But in the post-Stalin years the situation began to change. First, in the leadership of the country, and then in other parts of government. "The fish rots from the head". Many people conscientiously served their homeland, but already let in a reptile, gave up the slack in morality and in discipline. And with the construction of communism, this was not allowed. But allowed. In the Komsomol and in the party it was accepted to turn a blind eye, not only to the faults of a man, but also to his vices. They began to say: "We, the Communists, are also people, and nothing human is alien to us." Unfortunately, under this “human” most often lay habits and bourgeois habits, vices, the strength of which was great.
The fall in the level of discipline in the party and the Komsomol coincided with the general increase in the standard of living of the citizens of the country, and this led to a surge in petty bourgeoisness, which they criticized before the revolution and promised to fight it. Formalism and bureaucracy inevitably eroded the lives of all social organizations. Young people appeared on the streets, they began to look the other way, did not struggle with bad habits, and even worse, gave them development - they were dudes.
The post-war Komsomol, despite the alarming tendencies, continued to serve our Motherland. Komsomol members carried social loads. The easiest was the duty at school, everyone participated in community work days, collecting recyclables, schoolchildren and students pulled each other in school, helped the elderly and the disabled. The Komsomol organization had a sponsored enterprise, for example, a state farm or a collective farm, to which everyone went "on potatoes". Many worked together with the police: they joined the militia, worked with difficult teenagers from the “children's room”.
Unfortunately, the Komsomol and the pioneers ceased to be the communist avant-garde of the youth. They said that they take the most deserving people there, but in fact they accepted everyone. Increasingly, they entered for a tick, and not deliberately, going to fight for the best in man!
We firmly say: no, you can not use such methods to chase the number!
Due to formalism and bureaucracy, the Komsomol and the party are now most often perceived as a social elevator, allowing to get into power. This led to the fact that the leaders began to occupy careerists, displacing those who could be in their stead: the smartest, the most talented, the most courageous. Careerists moved up and began to lead the rest. And this is exactly what ruined our communist organizations in the “perestroika” and immediately after it. Party personnel ordered “not to put out” and “know your place”. The people forget the honest and dedicated workers and fighters, but remember that the heads of the CPSU and the Komsomol All have betrayed. Anyone who sees the Komsomol badge in our country begins to think about the “Komsomol workers” of the 1980s, who then became oligarchs.
The Gorbachev ruling elite considered the historical mission of the Komsomol to be exhausted and in 1991 dismissed the Komsomol. Months later, the CPSU ceased to exist, and then the Soviet Union itself.
On 8 November 1991, the AUCPB was formed, the first after the collapse of the USSR and the CPSU, the Bolshevik Party, which set itself the task of returning Soviet power in the post-Soviet space, returning true power to the working people — the dictatorship of the proletariat!
On June 29, 1992, the First (Constituent) Congress of the All-Union Young Guard of the Bolsheviks (VMGB) was held in Petrodvorets (Leningrad Region), at which the creation of a revolutionary organization of the Bolshevik youth was organized.
The VMGB was created as a youth organization of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (AUCPB). And it is inseparable from her. Our organization has come a long way. They tried to destroy us ideologically and physically. But we have survived and are still fighting capitalism and fascism. Yes, it is not easy for us, yes, we are now gathering our forces into a fist, but we are doing this and we are trying to match the realities of the times. We are looking for new methods of struggle and agitation, we are mastering the Internet space, we live and dedicate our lives to struggle. We continue the work of Komsomol members, real Komsomol members who lived and fought for the future of all mankind!
It has already been 100 years since the creation of the first in the world young union of communists, and on such a round date we announce the Komsomol membership in the VMGB! If you think that it is impossible to live like this today, if you want freedom and justice, if you know what to fight for, come to us!
“The most precious thing for a person is life. She is given to him once, and it is necessary to live it so that it would not be excruciatingly painful for purposelessly lived years, so that he would not shame the shameful past and petty past and, dying, could say: all life and all forces were given to the most beautiful in the world - the struggle for the liberation of mankind ". Nikolay Alekseevich Ostrovsky
Join the VMGB and join the struggle for the happiness of the working people together with your comrades!
Youth Bureau Central Committee of the AUCPB
