Belarusian schoolchildren salute during celebrations commemorating the 25th anniversary of the country's Young Pioneer movement in Minsk, September 13, 2015. Early pro-communist pioneer movements appeared in Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. In May 1922, they were organised into the Young Pioneer Organisation of the Soviet Union with units active in all republics of the union. In Belarus, the Young Pioneers remained a government-loyal youth movement even after the Soviet Union's collapse. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)
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