Dimitrovist Pioneer Organization "Septemberists"

The Dimitrovist Pioneer Organization "Septemberists" (Bulgarian: Димитровска пионерска организация "Септемврийче") was a pioneer movement in Bulgaria founded in September 1944. The DPO "Septemberists" organized children between 9 and 14 years old. Its day-to-day affairs were supervised by the Dimitrov Communist Youth Union. A 1967 estimate put its membership at about 700,000.^[1] A similar organization called the chavdarcheta existed for younger children who would later become pioneers. The two could be differentiated by their members' distinctive scarves, which were sky-blue in the chavdarcheta movement and red in the pioneri movement.

Dimitrovist Pioneer Organization "Septemberists" Димитровска пионерска организация "Септемврийче"
Emblem of the organization
Founded	September 1944
Dissolved	1990
Succeeded by	Bulgarian Socialist Youth Union
Membership	700,000 (1967)
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Mother party	Bulgarian Communist Party
National affiliation	Fatherland Front
International affiliation	WFDY

Pledge of the organization

I, a Dimitrovist Pioneer, today solemnly promise to my comrades and to my heroic people to fight selflessly for the work of the Communist Party of Bulgaria, towards the victory of communism. I swear to defend and keep the legacy and promise of Georgy Dimitrov, and to comply with the laws of the Dimitrovist Pioneers. I therefore pledge to be a worthy citizen of my dear fatherland, the People's Republic of Bulgaria.

See also

• Defence Assistance Organisation