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 07 Oct 2010, 15:27
I've been wondering, could anyone tell me the meaning of this salute? I've seen it on several posters for Young Pioneers, and throughout many socialist countries, and have never really understood it's meaning. Can anyone tell me what it was meant to represent or anything?
  
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 04 Aug 2007, 23:25 Ideology: Marxism-Leninism Komsomol 01 Nov 2010, 12:09
This is just a salute, used by several political movements an armies of Socialist nations.
In the People's Republic of China, this is the pose people often take when singing the national anthem. I think it's simply a Socialist version of the military salute.  "Communism is more about love for mankind than about politics." Me 04 Nov 2010, 18:05
It's the salute of the pioneers.
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