Countries With Pioneer Movements
The Pioneer Movement now exists in these countries:
- Armenia (Republic of young Pioneers and The Lernamerdz Soviet Pioneers)
- Belarus (Belarusian Republican Pioneer Organization)
- Belgium (Pioneers of the Workers Party of Belgium)
- People's Republic of China (Young Pioneers of China)
- Cuba (José Martí Pioneer Organization) Established in 1961; in 2001 it was elected to the Global 500 Roll of Honour of the United Nations Environment Programme for its environmental activities.
- Cyprus (EDON)
- Finland (Democratic Union of Finnish Pioneers)
- The Czech Republic – Nowadays Pionýr is a non-political organisation organizing leisure time for children, part of the IFM-SEI.
- Hungary
- Laos; the Young Pioneers in Laos are under the Lao People's Revolutionary Youth Union (LPRYU).
- North Korea (Young Pioneer Corps of the Korean Children's Union)
- Portugal – Pioneiros de Portugal, connected to the Portuguese Communist Party. Founded in 1974.
- Russia - (Pioneers of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation)
- Moldova - (Pioneers of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova)
- Ukraine - (Pioneers of the Communist Party of Ukraine)
- Senegal – Mouvement Nationale des Pionniers Senegalese
- Spain (Pioneers of the Communist Party of the Basque Homelands)
- Syria (Baath Party Pioneers)
- Tajikistan (King Somoni Inheritance)
- United States of America (Young Pioneers of America)
- Mexico (Pioneers Association "Vicente Lombardo Toledano" of the Partido Popular Socialista)
- Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneer League, established on May 15, 1941)
Older children could continue in other communist organizations, but that would typically be done only by a limited number of people.
The communist parties in Russia and other countries continue to run a pioneer organization, but membership tends to be quite limited.
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