Lietuvos komjaunimo sudėtis 1940 m. birželio – 1941 m. birželio mėn

LTRemiantis archyviniais šaltiniais straipsnyje nagrinėjama Lietuvos komunistinės jaunimo sąjungos sudėties kaita pirmosios sovietinės okupacijos metais. Parodomos komunistų partijos pastangos suformuoti savo socialinę atramą jaunimo sluoksniuose, paversti komjaunimą patikima politine struktūra ir okupacinio režimo poreikius atitinkančia organizacija. Apibūdinamas komjaunimo valymo kaip jo sudėties reguliavimo ir įtraukimo į VLKJS sistemą per socialinį-politinį patikrinimą procesas, pateikiami apibendrinantys jo rezultatų duomenys.

ENThe Lithuanian Leninist Young Communist League (LLKJS) in Lithuania occupied by the Soviet Union was a political structure of the occupation regime, which provided a reserve and assistance to the ruling Communist Party and actively participated in the Sovietisation of the country and indoctrination of the youth in the spirit of Communism. In October 1940, the league was incorporated into the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (VLKSM) and integrated to the USSR political system. Its aims were to extend the social base of the Communist Party, to exert political influence on youth, and to make the youth serve the occupation policy. With an aim of gaining social support and political influence among the youth, the Communist Party promoted the Komsomol. In summer 1940, fast and uncontrolled growth of its ranks was stimulated. In February 1941, LLKJS raised for itself a goal of making it into a massive organisation capable of embracing and exerting political control over youth. In order to improve the image of the Komsomol and to make its ethnic composition reflect that of Lithuania, joining the LLKJS was particularly promoted among workers, peasants, schoolchildren, Lithuanians, and Poles of Vilnius region. Between November 1940 and May 1941, a campaign of issuing the LLKJS certificates to its members took place, which was a cleansing campaign of the Komsomol on the basis of social and political criteria. This campaign was aimed at integrating the LLKJS into the VLKSM through the process of socio-political validation of its members and exclusion of those members, who were socially and politically hostile or unreliable to the occupation authorities. [...].