Komsomol

The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Russian:Всесоюзный ленинский коммунисти́ческий сою́з молодёжи (ВЛКСМ)  listen ), usually known as Komsomol (Russian:Комсомо́л, a syllabic abbreviation from the Russian kommunisticheskii soyuz molodyozhi), was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union. It is sometimes described as the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), although it was officially independent and referred to as "the helper and the reserve of the CPSU".