Document 136

Salutatory letter from Young Pioneers to Kalinin, January 1934

RGASPI, f. 78. op. 1, d. 526, ll. 3-3ob. Original manuscript.

Dear Mikhail Ivanovich!

We send you warm Young Pioneer and Little Octobrist greetings from the pupils of Health-Improvement School No. 6. We congratulate you on the opening of the 17th Party Congress as one of the old members of the VKP(b). We want to report to you about how our school has also prepared for the VKP(b) Congress. First we held meetings in groups, and each of us made pledges for our studies and discipline. We began to compete, group against group, team against team, to see who fulfills their pledges better. We have only nine students with failing grades, and before we had nineteen. Our parents gave us the Red Challenge Banner. By the end of the year we will make sure that there will not be a single student with failing grades. Out of the 120 students in our school, forty three are the best shockworkers. Their grades are good or excellent and they follow regulations. We do community work. Everybody has joined the MOPR. We are helping the Chuvash kolkhoz Banner of the Revolution, have opened up nursery schools, have sent money and toys, and are helping the school: we have sent an erector set, textbooks and money for seeds to be planted in the school vegetable garden. The kolkhoz school sends us its projects. We correspond with them all the time. Right now we are preparing for the spring sowing campaign, we are doing a collection for the kolkhoz and we are working in our pet corner. Grandfather, we are the happiest children in the Soviet Union. Our school was established after [the] October [Revolution]. We study here and get treatment. Our school is the school of the future. The open schools pay attention to children's health, and so they have sent us weak children to the Health Improvement School.

Mikhail Ivanovich! Please make mention at the Congress of the VKP(b) how the children of working people study, get health care and receive instruction so that they will be ready to replace their fathers.

Always prepared in the struggle for the workers' cause!

Signatures of twenty one children