This organization probably grew out of scouts https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/01/putins-boy-scout-army-r...
going "The Youth Army, open to both boys and girls, is a militarized throwback to the Young Pioneers of the Soviet era." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/world/europe/russia-sovie...
and ending up with straight up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth