Hal, that article you linked to contains one of my pet peeves: Hard line communists being equated to conservatives and those fighting for freedom being equated to liberals. The kids in that photo of the Nashi gathering don’t look like Hitler Jugend to me. They look like Young Pioneers or Komsomols, the Communist Party’s organizations for committed communist youth, two organizations that, by the way, were never equated to Hitler Youth by the Western media when communism still held sway in Russia and in the minds of Western intellectuals.