League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia

League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia Savez socialističke omladine Jugoslavije (Serbo-Croatian) Zveza socialistične mladine Jugoslavije (Slovene) Сојуз на социјалистичката младина на Југославија (Macedonian)
Emblem
Flag
Founded	10 October 1919
Dissolved	24 February 1991
Headquarters	Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Membership	3.6 million (1983)[1]
Ideology	Communism Marxism-Leninism Titoism [citation needed]
International affiliation	World Federation of Democratic Youth (until 1948)
National affiliation	Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia

The League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia (SSOJ) was the youth movement, member organisation of the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia (SSRNJ).^[2] Membership stood at more than 3.6 million individuals in 1983.^[1] It was originally established as the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) on 10 October 1919 and retained that name until 1948.^[3] Although it was banned just two years after its establishment and at times ruthlessly prosecuted, it continued to work clandestinely and was an influential organization among revolutionary youth in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and consequently became a major organizer of Partisan resistance to Axis occupation and local Quisling forces. After World War II, SKOJ became a part of a wider organization of Yugoslav youth, the People's Youth of Yugoslavia, which later became the League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia.