Since 1946 SCI is involved in the eventful changes and developments in the East-West exchange. The beginn of activities goes back to 1946 with post war relief projects in Poland and Czechoslovakia. With the beginning of the Cold War in the late 1940s, SCI set up a continuously exchange with several communist countries from 1955 on. In co-operation with socialist volunteer organisation workcamps were organised. This contacts were intensified in the 70s in order to facilitate volunteer exchange. Since the political shift in 1990s new SCI initiatives started in Eastern Europe.
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Articles on East-West
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Origin of SCI’s East-West Activities with organisations in European Socialist Countries
Short historical review by Ralph Hegnauer, international secretary of SCI, about the E/W exchange during the socialist periods.
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The beginning of SCI Romania 1991-1994
In 1991, the first SCI workcamp in Romania took place. In 1994, there were already twelve workcamps and a group of enthusiastic and motivated Romanian volunteers applied to get the group status within our movement. How was this impressive growth of SCI activities possible just after the end of the communist reign where voluntary work…
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50 years ago in Warsaw
50 years ago started the frist SCI workcamp in Warsaw in cooperation with World Federation of Democratic Youth*. In SCI publication this workcamp is often considered as “the beginning” of the East West exchange in our organisation.
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East-West-Archives Online
Recently the on-line Archives Collection of SCI Archives was enlarged with 750 Documents (PDF-files)on the East-West exchange.
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Archives East-West Coordination
The Archives LTV Tatyana of last winter returned for one month to Switzerland, in order to continue to file archives.
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New archives section Belarus
A new archives section for SCI activities in Belarus has been installed. Recently files were acquired, which give insight in the birth of an new SCI group in a post soviet republic.
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Some words about the starting up of SCI in Hungary and Poland
After the break-up of the socialist system at the end of the 1980s, our previous partners in Hungary had simply disappeared, and so SCI was left with hardly any opportunities of cooperation.
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The East-West commitment of SCI since 1946
Milestones of SCI projects in the East-West context1946Sítina, Olesovice, Steknice (CSR)1947Lucimia / AFSC (Poland)1947Omladinska pruga Samac-Sarajevo (Yugoslavia)1955Warzawa (Poland)1958Kupino (USSR)1966Halle-West (GDR)1966Tata (Hungary)
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