Bulgaria Bulgarian DKMS Membership Badge

[christerd]

This is a new one in the forum I think?

The Bulgarian "forum" is growing fast

Dimitrov Communist Youth Organization

You could join at the age of 14 and this young kid was just 14 when he joined the organization in 1987

He payed the membership fee for all 1988 but then it stopped I wonder what hes doing today? would be 35 years old now.

This book is numbered serie B 443245 and I have another with nr serie A 077895 from 1971 so I suppose the have quite a lot of members? 1.5 Millions??

Christer

[christerd]

This is a new one in the forum I think?

The Bulgarian "forum" is growing fast

Dimitrov Communist Youth Organization

You could join at the age of 14 and this young kid was just 14 when he joined the organization in 1987

He payed the membership fee for all 1988 but then it stopped I wonder what hes doing today? would be 35 years old now.

This book is numbered serie B 443245 and I have another with nr serie A 077895 from 1971 so I suppose the have quite a lot of members? 1.5 Millions??

Christer

And here is the inside with the photo of the young member

[christerd]

And here is the inside with the photo of the young member

And the very very small badge !

[Theodor]

ha, the DKMS The incubator for young party members. Yes, most likely hundreds thousands, if not millions members. All youth /with very little exceptions/ had to join. Of course, the bad apples /youth with criminal behavior or from "fascist family"/ were not invited or were later expelled from that healthy organization and it was a big deal And those few who were considered Ok to join, but declared they would not - were talked to for a long time and some pressure on them to correct their wrong attitude and join... Of course, the refusals appeared at a later stage, in earlier years you would not get away with pissing on the values of the DKMS

....quite similar to the Party joining troubles, but with the Party it was worse! The uncle was considered a good specialist and a good person, thus HAD to join the Party. In result, he had to change his job twice, when the pressure to join the Party would become too strong /that was done on the level of the particular institution, so going elsewhere to work did help save himself from becoming a Party Member /. And also being non-member, he did not get promoted in the work as much and as fast as he should have been - it did not matter if you have knowledge and skills, the Party status was important!

Anyway back to the badges. Some guy worked well for the DKMS

[Theodor]

DKMS means Dimitrovski Komunisticheski Mladejki Sayuz - Dimitor's Communist Youth Union. The name used everywhere for it was Komsomol, despite the fact this comes from the name of the Soviet, not the Bulgarian organization.

But in the beginning - from 1947 to 1949 - the name was different - SNM. Sayuz na Narodnata Mladej - Union of the People's Youth.

On 22 December 1947 were merged: the Workers' Youth Union /RMS/, The Bulgarian Agrarian Youth Union, the leftist wing of the Union of the Socialist Youth and the Youth People's Union "Zveno". These were merged into the new organization - SNM.

On 9 July 1949, a week after the death of /the traitor, criminal and dictator/ Georgi Dimitrov, a Mourning Congress of the SNM was called and the decision was taken to rename the organization to DSNM - Dimitorv's Union of the Socialist Youth, in the name of the dead leader.

And on its IV Congress in 1958, the organization was renamed to DKMS.

Here are the two badges, the DKMS and the earlier SNM:

Edited June 6, 2008 by Theodor

[Theodor]

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[Theodor]

And here is a DSNM badge:

For Labour Activity

Central Committee of

DSNM

Edited June 6, 2008 by Theodor

[Stogieman]

Interesting similarity to one of the partisan pins.

Theodor, thanks for all the details, translations, information and help here!!

[Guest Rick Research]

I worry about you guys' dating chances.

"He" was a "she"-- Margarit.

[Theodor]

I worry about you guys' dating chances.

"He" was a "she"-- Margarit.

No, he is he, he is not she Margarit is a male name - very rare seen, but only male name. The female is more commonly found, it is Margarita.

Nearly all Bulgarian female names end with letter A. Very few end with i or the typical Bulgarian letter YA. And sometimes the female names end with a consonant letter - very, very rare, usually names inspired from other countries /like Ivet /Yvette//.

Anyway, I was trying to say, even if the first name ends with a consonant letter, the other names should not. Consonant letter of second and third name - Male.

/I think it was a joke, but still giving this information to help you guys find out who is who in documents with no photos/

Edited June 6, 2008 by Theodor

[Theodor]

Searched through my badges and managed to fill the timeline! SNM -> DSNM -> DKMS

[Theodor]

as usual, older screwback, newer pinback

[Theodor]

one more DKMS, involving the image of the great Botev

[Theodor]

not interesting, but anyway the back side: