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🥳Today we celebrate: • День Пионерии Pioneer Day 🔻Pioneers – Heirs of the Scouts. 🔻Children's and youth organizations existed in Russia even before the revolution, most notably the Scout movement. 🔻After the revolution, the Scout movement was banned, but many of its forms were used in 1922 during the creation of the Pioneer organization, including the slogan 'Будь готов! - Всегда готов!' (Be prepared/ready! - Always prepared/ready!) 🔻In 1970, there were 23 million Pioneers in the country, and over 200 million Soviet citizens passed through the Pioneer organization in total! I was a Pioneer too! 🔻There was a Pioneer version of the phrase used to affirm the truthfulness of one's words: Честное слово!Literally: Honest word! I swear! Honestly! • Честное пионерское! (I give you my) honest pioneer's (word)! = I swear! #holidays #useful_vocabulary #USSR 😎RCRussian | Support | Boost