Pioneers-heroes

The images of pioneer heroes were actively used in the Soviet Union as examples of high morals.

[citation needed] For propaganda purposes, some young persons were entered the "Book of Honor", but who were actually not pioneers, notably Pavlik Morozov listed as Number 1 in the Book of Honor, but, as turned out, his biography was thoroughly fabricated by Soviet propaganda.

[2] Positive images of pioneer-heroes were actively exploited in Soviet propaganda and a many books and films were devoted to them.

The 1957 Soviet film Orlyonok [ru] is about a Soviet World War II pioneer-hero, whose image combines facts form biographies of real pioneer-heroes, Heroes of the Soviet Union, Valentin Kotyk and Marat Kazey.

Some other films involving pioneer-heroes include Street of the Younger Son, Green Chains, First Squad, and Fortress of War.

USSR post stamp.The pioneers-heroes Lyonya Golikov and Valya Kotik
Memorial to the pioneers heroes of the Great Patriotic War near Tolyatti , the former Young Pioneer camp "Scarlet Sails" (From right to left: Borya Tsarikov, Marat Kazey , Zinaida Portnova, Lyonya Golikov, Valya Kotik and Volodya Dubinin).
Memorial to Shura Kober and Vitya Khomenko in Mykolayiv