Pioneer youth organisation has over 14,000 members

The youth and children’s organisation Pioneer (Pionýr in Czech) has 14,200 members today, the Czech News Agency reported, citing a spokesperson. It is the successor to a communist-era association known as Pioneer Organization of the Socialist Youth Union that had 100,000 members in 1990, the year after the fall of communism in the country.

The scouts are more popular today, with just over 60,500 members in the Czech Republic.

Author: Ian Willoughby