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Usage examples of komsomol.

For many months I had been envying the boys who wore the dark-red badges of the Komsomol in their button-holes.

Often, when the Komsomol printers marched from the old part of the town to their club in Zhitomir Street, I would stand for a long time watching them pass.

It had never entered my head that I could join the Komsomol here, at the Party School.

Only that morning Father had been saying that a big detachment of Communists and Komsomol members had left town to clean up a bandit gang.

I had been so glad when I learned that Polevoi was in favour of my joining the Komsomol, and it had been such a blow when I had been asked to leave the meeting.

The runner turned out to be that stocky Komsomol member who had been chairman at the Komsomol meeting and had asked me to leave the hall.

I was paired up with the student who had shown me out of the Komsomol meeting.

When I used to look after the Komsomol club in Balta, I got very keen on them.

The next day, Saturday, Sasha was a little better, the swelling had gone down, but it was clear that to appear at the Komsomol meeting in such a state would be to ruin everything.

When we arrived, the meeting had already begun and the Komsomol members were standing and singing The Young Guard.

The sight of him sitting there beside old Komsomol members made me feel that the question of his acceptance had been settled long ago.

We with our objection would only make fools of ourselves here, among members of the best Komsomol organization in town.

The purpose of self-criticism, Misha said, was to help each Komsomol and Young Pioneer to perfect himself, to see his own defects and to rid himself of them as quickly as possible.

We all know that he is a good Komsomol and that he is devoted to the cause of the Revolution, but his faults prevent him from giving society the benefit that he could otherwise have given.

But on the other hand, he was not an adult, but a Komsomol like the others.