English Translation

Betr.: " J u n a k " - Czech Scaut Association. Two essential forms of community determine the Czech youth in the present day. These are the organizations "Mladé Národni Souručenstvi", the "Youth of the National Community", as a structure of the NG. on the one hand and the Czech Scout Association "Junak" on the other. During as in general political life the Ng. The development of "Junak": The beginnings of "junak" go back to the first Czech scout groups, the Prof. A.B. S v o j s í k, the creator of the Czech Scaut-Wesen, founded in 1912 after a return from a trip to England in close reference to the model of the "Boy skauts"Baden Powells in Prague. l9l4 he summarized these groups into an association "Junak - Český Skaut" (The Young Czech. Skaut"). During World War II and in the days of the revolution, the young association proved its political capability by actively providing its members with support in the Czech uprising and in its first months of construction. The post-war period, as an effect of the fragmentation of the party in Czech political life, also brought about the disintegration of the youth according to different party directions, by the larger parties creating their own skaut formations. The then prevailing fragmentation in the area of life of the Czech federal youth only very unclearly reveals the organizational demarcation. Several roofing companies were equivalent to each other, among them A also