A pretty pin badge from the SSM of former Czechoslovakia. It is a badge for Instructors of live weapons exercises in the SSM and features a skier and running man both carrying weapons.The badge face is 4cm high and has a safety clasp style fastener to the rear.
Historical Information.
In 1970 the communist party organized the Czechoslovak Socialist Union of Youth (SSM). The recruitment effort was more intense than ever. "I know of only two types of students at this institution," commented one teacher, "those who will not graduate and those who are members of the Czechoslovak Socialist Union of Youth." The nets had been cast so widely that, not surprisingly, some members were unenthusiastic. Throughout the 1970s, there were complaints about the organization's propensity to take any and all joiners (even "beatniks," one writer complained), the association's apolitical and recreational focus, and a membership bent more on securing admission to a university than learning "the principles of socialist patriotism."
In 1983 the Czechoslovak Socialist Union of Youth had a total membership of over 1.5 million. Twenty-five percent of the members were listed as workers, 3% as agricultural workers, and 72% as "others". Over the time the membership in Pionyr and SSM became more-less a formal duty; most of the members ignored actions organized by the Union and many local groups existed only on the paper.
This information was lifted from wikipedia's Czechoslovak youth organisation page.