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A Russian reader tells us about a late-Soviet movie, "I Am a Pioneer Leader" (Ya Vozhatyj Forposta). I was made in 1986. The movie is based on the novel of Nikolay Ognev Kostya Ryabtsev's Diary. The book is set in the early-1920s just after the Russian Revolyution and Civil War. Young (16 or maybe 17 years old) Komsomol member Kostya becomes a leader of one of the first Young Pioneer groups. The costuming in the movie is very accurate. As fae as we can tell, this was a rare Soviet film about the Young Pioneer movement. Pioneers appear in quite a number of Soviet films, nut not very many Soviet films focused to such an extent on the Pioneer Movement.
In the movie is pictured a situation in early-Doviet children education, when in one and the same school worked both "new" teachers, dreaming of building a socialism, communists or komsomol members, - and "old" teachers,
that try to work like they did in Tsarist times. Naturally, first are depicted as positive heroes - maybe too naive and too radical sometimes, but positive; second ones are depicted as negative heroes - although good
specialists. Their approach to children is different, too: first consider 'em as "tomorrow fighters for building of socialism", "creative and initiative", for who "school is more important than family", second - as
"just small children", who need home care and formal discipline.
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