Dimitrovist Pioneer Organization "Septemberists"

Dimitrovist Pioneer Organization "Septemberists" Димитровска пионерска организация "Септемврийче"
Emblem of the organization
Founded	September 1944
Dissolved	1990
Membership	700.000 (1967)
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Mother party	Bulgarian Communist Party
National affiliation	Bulgarian Fatherland Front

Dimitrovist Pioneer Organization "Septemberists" (Bulgarian: Димитровска пионерска организация "Септемврийче") was a pioneer movement in Bulgaria. The organization was founded in September 1944. DPO "Septemberists" organized children between 9 and 14 years old. Its day-to-day affairs were supervised by the Dimitrov Communist Youth Union. A 1967 estimate put its membership to about 700 000.^[1] There were also an organization called chavdarcheta – these were the youngest children, which later became pioneers. The difference between the two was the distinctive scarf, which was sky-blue in the chavdarcheta movement and red in the pioneri movement.

Pledge of the organization[]

I, a Dimitrovist Pioneer, today solemnly promise to my comrades and to my heroic people to fight selflessly the work of the Communist Party of Bulgaria, towards the victory of communism. I swear to defend and keep the legacy and promise of Georgy Dimitrov, and to comply with the laws of the Dimitrovist Pioneers. I therefore pledge to be a worthy citizen of my dear fatherland, the People's Republic of Bulgaria.

See also[]

• Defence Assistance Organisation

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