[lbo-talk] Death to Soviet Children
Wendy Lyon
wendy.lyon at gmail.com
Mon Oct 20 07:05:43 PDT 2008
On 20/10/2008, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Pioneer camps are where Young Pioneers (the Soviet youth organization) went in summer and on vacation to play games, go sightseeing, and listen to rousing speeches about how all good children should emulate Wise Grandfather Lenin. The movie title is a joke on all those Pioneer slogans like "Happiness and Socialist Patriotism to Soviet Children!" Incidentally those uniforms the Tatu girls were wearing were modeled on Pioneer uniforms.
There was something that looked suspiciously like a Pioneer camp where
I was staying in Russia a few years ago. We went to a disco they put
on.
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