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The communist state consistently eradicated independent social organization, and the hippies were no exception: the police and operatives of the Komsomol, a communist youth organization, persecuted them.—Juliane Fürst, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
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Russian, from Kommunisticheskiĭ Soyuz Molodezhi Communist Union of Youth
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