[23.05, 18:10] WAABIST: The term "Young People's Movement" is so wide that it includes all kinds of young people's associations from Punk Rockers, Hippies, and Goths to the Young Conservatives in Britain and Komsomol in Soviet Russia.
[23.05, 18:10] WAABIST: The world's first voluntary youth organization was the Boys' Brigade, founded in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1883 by William Alexander Smith. This idea was to give the boys religious education and teach them to be disciplined and well-mannered.
[23.05, 18:11] WAABIST: Very often young people's movements are political in nature. In the 1930s there existed Fascist organizations for young people in Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany. In Britain some young people joined the Blackshirts.
[23.05, 18:11] WAABIST: Soviet Russia had Young Communist groups: Oktobrists, Pioneers and Komsomol, which were founded to give young people political education and teach them patriotism.
The second half of the 20th century saw a number of youth cults and cultures such as the Rockers, associated with motorcycles, rock-and-roll music and clothes made of leather
[23.05, 18:12] WAABIST: Skinheads, mostly boys and young men, shave their hair off or cut it very short. They wear heavy boots and earrings. Skinheads often use violence and terrorize people. Some of the youth cults have survived till nowadays.