Bag of "Baby Lenin" Pins

[theCryptofishist]

About 20 in a small ziplock bag. At eplaya meet 'n' greet.

[AntiM]

Oddly, I have two pins just like that, given to us by an Israeli journalist on Tuesday evening, 4:30 plaza. He said they were Soviet Boy Scouts. Just playadipity.

[theCryptofishist]

I think they were used/distributed by the Young Pioneers...

[AntiM]

Scouts, Pioneers, I am easily confused.

[theCryptofishist]

Oh, I think the Young Pioneers were the Soviet answer to the Boy Scouts, much as the Hitlerjungend were Nazi Germany's. And I don't know if I'd trust an Israeli journalist to know the difference, although at a guess, his (her?) parents emigrated from there. Or the grandparents.

And I'm not making any remarks about scouting in general being a fine way to teach hateful conformity across the generations. Perhaps because I don't want to ruffle Bob's feathers....

[AntiM]

His parents, he was quite proud of it. I think I have that right. Chance encounter, that's what stuck in my memory.

[theCryptofishist]

Seems completely plausible.

Not that I have any special knowledge on the subject.
I will have to go to ebay. Maybe after xmas...

[bobalou]

Sorry, nothing to add to the discussion except, "this is not in the lost and found database."

Bobalou

[theCryptofishist]

True. they were just hidden and I found them over a week ago.
Sorry.

[Savannah]

Yay.