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Komsomol

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Komsomol [ˌkɒmsəˈmɒl ˈkɒmsəˌmɒl (Russian) kəmsaˈmɔl]
n
(Historical Terms) (formerly) the youth association of the Soviet Union for 14- to 26-year-olds
[from Russian, from Kom(munisticheski) So(yuz) Mol(odezhi) Communist Union of Youth]


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As a reward for his boundless sycophancy, Reed was elevated to superstar status, afforded lavish recording and tour budgets and plum film roles (which he immediately turned to wood), and awarded the Komsomol Lenin Prize.
In truth, all of the leading Russian crime bosses, the "oligarchs,"--Loutchansky, Gusinsky, Berezovsky, Khordokovsky, Mogilevich--are veterans of the KGB-FSB and/or the Komsomol, the Communist Youth, and were "set up" in business by the KGB, following a refined version of Lenin's New Economic Program of the 1920s.
But even in the magazines Carleton did use, which were published for mostly male audiences such as the Komsomol (the communist youth organization), gender matters figure prominently.
 
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