A rare, gold coloured metal pin badge from central slovakia.The badge face is 1.6cm wide and has a long stick pin style fastener to the rear. It appears to depict CSM members helping out with construction.
Historical Information.
After the 1948 takeover of power, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ("KSC") formed two Soviet-style youth organizations: the Pionýr (Pioneers, for youngsters eight to fifteen years old) and the Czechoslovak Union of Youth (CSM, ages fifteen to twenty-five). Both organizations were geared toward grooming their members (or a fortunate fraction of them) for KSC membership.
The Pionyrs were very much like the boy scouts, but the CSM were more politically focused.
CSM membership was considered necessary for entrance to university or a professional career, so people joined up regardless of their political leanings.