Red scarf
{{Short description|Primary symbol of youth communist organisations}}
{{other uses|Red scarf (disambiguation)}}
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The red scarf is a neckerchief worn by young pioneers of several communist and socialist countries. In the Soviet Union, it was known as pionerskiy galstuk (пионерский галстук, i.e. 'pioneer's tie'), in Vietnam as khăn quàng đỏ ('red scarf'), in China as hóng lǐngjīn ({{Lang-zh|s=红领巾|t=紅領巾}}, 'red scarf'), in Cuba as pañoleta roja ('red scarf'), and in Hungary as úttörőnyakkendő ('pioneer's neckerchief').
Background
File:Red Young Pioneers neckerchief.PNG
It remains in use by the young pioneer organizations of China,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/26/world/after-50-years-china-youth-remain-mao-s-pioneers.html|title=After 50 Years, China Youth Remain Mao's Pioneers|last=Eckholm|first=Erik|date=1999-09-26|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-01-14|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Vietnam,{{Cite book|title=Vietnamese Children in a Changing World|last=Burr|first=Rachel|publisher=Rutgers University Press|year=2006|pages=39}} North Korea,{{Cite web|url=https://www.youngpioneertours.com/young-pioneer-anyway/|title=What is a Young Pioneer, Anyway?|date=2017-08-29|website=Young Pioneer Tours|language=en|access-date=2020-01-14}} and Cuba,{{Cite book|title=Teens in Cuba|last=Donovan|first=Sandy|publisher=Capstone Publishers|year=2008|pages=80}} and – unofficially, on occasions – in many other countries{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kyrgyzstan-pioneers-idUSL2445385420070926|title=Soviet flags fly as Kyrgyz Pioneers unite|date=2007-09-26|work=Reuters|access-date=2020-01-14|language=en}}{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}, such as Russia, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Belarus, Ukraine, Finland, etc. In China, the scarf is emblematic of the blood of the revolutionary Red Guards, as recalled in Red Scarf Park and the title of Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang about her experiences during the Cultural Revolution. In Cuba, the scarf is worn by schoolchildren from first to sixth grade.Teens in Cuba Sandy Donovan, Sujay Rao, Alexa L. Sandmann – 2008 "Cuban students usually join the Pioneers in first grade. When a child joins, there is a formal ceremony where the Young Pioneers neckerchief is presented. First-graders receive a red scarf, which they wear through sixth grade. In seventh ..."
Other users
A red scarf was introduced into the Republic of Korea Air Force as a device to aid visual location of downed South Korean airmen, it became and remains an iconic item of uniform in the Republic of Korea Air Force.{{cite news |last=Kim |first=Hyo-jin|date=3 February 2015 |title=Former Air Force chief of staff dies at 91 |url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/people/2015/03/178_172926.html|newspaper=The Korea Times|access-date=4 April 2015}}
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Gallery
File:Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers at the Southeast Asian Games 2003.jpg|Pioneers in Vietnam, 2003
File:Uruguayan schoolchildren.jpg|Cuban schoolchildren wearing blue scarves, 2006
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Young Pioneers neckerchief}}
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{{Pioneer movement}}