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Countries with the greatest proportion of people without religion (including agnostics and atheists) (as of 2007):

Japan 64–80%refhttp://www.thomsontimes.com/Facts_About_Japan.html/ref (72%)

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After World War I, Scouting was banned by the Soviets in Russia, Armenia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Just prior to World War II, both Mussolini and Hitler disbanded Scouting. In most of these instances, Scouting was revived in the individual community in diaspora.

During the latter days of World War II and until about 1950, Scouting flourished in the Displaced Persons Camps or DP Camps. These DP Scout groups often provided postal delivery and other basic services in Displaced Persons Camps.^[1]

At the end of World War II, the Soviets absorbed Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and immediately banned Scouting. The establishment of communist regimes in Eastern Europe resulted in the end of the original Scouting movements within Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, and Yugoslavia.

Totalitarian countries[edit]

With the end of the colonial period, other countries came under totalitarian control and banned Scouting. Such was the case in Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Mainland China, Cuba, Laos, Malawi, Myanmar, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

During and immediately after the establishment of each totalitarian government, there was an exodus of people that were not in sympathy with the new regime. Those immigrants brought Scouting with them, as Scouts-In-Exile, groups of Scouts dedicated to the principles and ideals of their original associations, but located outside their country of origin. The notable exception to this is Bosnia, where refugees fleeing the war in the 1990s made their way to Ireland, where they were assisted in the creation of their own Scouting movement by local volunteer Irish Scouters.

Modern era[edit]

Many of these exile Scout groups were members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement or the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. However, in the mid 1940s, they were denied further membership, with the exception of the Haï Ari Association of Armenian Scouts, whose membership was retained at the explicit wish of Baden-Powell.

All the formerly communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Soviet Union have developed or are developing Scouting in the wake of the renaissance in the region. These include most of the successor states to the Soviet Union. In many cases, the exile Scout association was absorbed into the new nation's association, in others the association remained separate and provided aid to the fledgling homegrown Scout groups.

A number of exile Scout groups have their own national and multinational organizations, hold regional and world jamborees, issue training materials, and furnish leadership. Other groups were eventually absorbed into local communities or lost their unique Scouting completely, as seems to have been the case with Belarus.

In a number of countries, the Scouts in exile cooperated with the national Scout organizations in joint activities, including joint activities between Estonian Scouting in Exile Eesti Skautide Malev and Svenska Scoutrådet in Sweden; Latvian Scouting in Exile and Scouts Australia in Australia,^[2] Polish Scouting in Exile and Argentina, Ukrainian Scouting in Exile and Canada, and other Scout groups.

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Objective[edit]

SUM Objective is to organize, nurture, and educate youth in the spirit invoked by the ideals "God and Ukraine"; in forming their Christian and patriotic values as well as morally sound individuality, to cultivate the unity of Ukrainians around the world, in readiness to work for the good of the Ukrainian Nation and to build its statehood.

Motto[edit]

"God and Ukraine" Based on this highest of ideals, SUM's programs promote the principles of Christian ethics and patriotism in the Ukrainian heritage. Emphasis is placed on a person’s role as a citizen of their country and their role as a member of the Ukrainian community.

Programs[edit]

Weekly Meetings: The youth chapters meet weekly and participating in programs. These programs include sports, singing, arts and crafts, field trips, and much more. Lectures and teachings enable the youth to broaden their knowledge in areas such as Ukrainian history, geography, literature, and traditions. Topics are guided by an annual theme and historic anniversaries that are highlighted during the year. The youth also often get special guests to come in and contribute to their weekly programs.

Sports: Aside from weekly meetings, the youth participate in various organized athletic activities by joining volleyball, soccer, baseball, hockey and other teams. SUM also has annual sporting events in which SUM youth participate.

Culture: SUM prouides choirs, marching bands, dance groups, bandura ensembles, drama groups and schools that provide instruction in music and traditional dance. During their weekly meeting, the "Vekhovnyky" instructors give cultural teachings.

Camps: Among the most important educational opportunities SUM provides are summer and winter camp programs, which include day and sleepover camps. Both National Executive Boards and local branches organize camps of interest to a wide range of youth as well as adult members. Some camps concentrate on the development of leadership skills, while others are athletic, terrestrial, or cultural based. Educational-recreational camps for youth ages 6-17 are also quite popular. SUM, through its many branches, maintains more than a dozen campgrounds located across three continents which include Europe, Australia and Oceania, and North America.

Jamborees and Rallies: Between the most popular camps are those held either on a national or international level. Such camps are usually organized in conjunction with special events, such as the Olympic Games.

The Ukrainian Youth Association SUM was born from within the youth sector of the Союз визволення України. Begun as a secret organization by Mykola Pavlushkov, Borys Matushevskyi and others, SUM was organized into small anonymous groups of no more than five members so that if caught and interrogated, members could not identify more than a small handful of co-conspirators. What SUM wanted was their country to be a free Ukraine.

Members of SUM in the early days worked actively in many ways. They melted into the political infrastructure, pretending to support the Soviet regime and communism in order to gain access to people, places and secrets. They tried to stay within the rest of the system so that the members of SUM, especially the youth, were still educated so they knew the truth about their history and their people. SUM members actively worked to influence the community from every facet that their positions afforded them, always living by the motto "God and Ukraine", the two highest ideals and symbols that governed their lives.

Then, in 1930, a group of 45 leading members of SUM and Союз визволення України was arrested for their anti-Soviet activism and placed on trial in Kharkiv, then the Soviet capital of Ukraine. These 45 leaders of the two groups stood proudly and defiantly as 13 of them were sentenced to death, the others receiving various sentences of incarceration and imprisonment for their activism and love of their nation. Among the 13 were Mykola Pavlushkov, Serhii Yefremov, Volodymyr Chekhivskyi, and others who were considered by their peers to be the "conscience of Ukraine". Every one of those sentenced that day, including the 13 whose death sentences were later changed to terms of life imprisonment, would later die in prisons, labor camps or other forms of forced isolation, while serving the sentences placed upon them for their beliefs and work in SUM and Союз визволення України.

After the liquidation by Stalin of these key players in the struggle for Ukrainian independence, for a number of years SUM continued to exist only in the hearts of those who believed in the cause.

Then came 1946, the year the next war ended. Thousands of Ukrainians who found themselves beyond the borders of their homeland decided they must remain beyond those borders, despite not knowing what tomorrow would bring. According to available statistics, in January of 1946 there were 102,000 Ukrainians in the English, American and French occupied zones of Germany and Austria. Among them, 44.1% were youths between the ages of 10 and 29.

In Germany, upon the initiative of a group of older activists, many formerly from eastern Ukraine, on July 6, 1946 a meeting took place in Munich of organizers wanting to create a rebirth of the SUM ideals. Because of their work, by the end of July there were already seven branches with over 200 members active in that community. Amongst the goal of creating a constitution and laws, and a central body empowered to give direction to the organization, the Central Organizing Bureau was created. In 1947, the First Congress of the Ukrainian Youth Association approved the Constitution and program of SUM. They also, during this time, made the design of a flag and an organizational emblem, and approved guidelines for the further development of the organization. Local branches began to develop very quickly, and the formation of cultural, artistic and recreational groups began to appear in large numbers. The work of SUM was quickly becoming recognized among Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian communities, and the role of SUM became very important

SUM branches spread rapidly to several continents, branching out from Europe into North and South America, and Australia, and again found a home in the place of the organization's founding - Ukraine. Today, SUM's many thousands of members can be found not only in Ukraine but also in the Ukrainian Diaspora of many countries - Australia, Argentina, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. See contents of Branches below for more detail. Almost 75 years after its founding and 50 years after the rebirth of the Ukrainian Youth Association in the Diaspora, SUM works to afford to its membership the means of social interpersonal contact, mutual assistance, spiritual, mental, social, cultural, educational and physical welfare, within a patriotic context in step with the motto of Pavlushkov and his co-founders, "God and Ukraine".

SUM crest[edit]

The whole shape of the official SUM emblem is reminiscent of an ancient shield. Shields, of this type, once served warriors, or "druzhynnyky", as protection against enemy during battle. Similarly, one's upbringing in the SUM tradition, based on the high moral and ethical ideals of the Ukrainian nation, should serve as a defensive shield in today's spiritual battle to fortify national Statehood. The emblem's background is blue, which represents the clear blue sky above Ukraine. Attention is drawn to the focal point of the emblem, three letters "SUM" in white, in similar form as Ukraine's national emblem, the "Tryzub". This alludes to one of SUM aims - helping the Ukrainian nation and State. The white color of the letters symbolizes the symbolic purity of the SUM ideals. Beneath the letters "SUM" appears the rising sun. Its golden rays stretch to the outer boundaries of the shield. The spreading rays symbolize the spread of SUM ideals; they serve to support the letters "SUM". The rising sun lights the path to achieving SUM goals, to attaining a life of fulfillment for Ukrainians in their own land. SUM yearns for the lighted path of the sun, and work to achieve new heights. Beneath the rising sun are four oak leaves, with two ripe acorns. The green of the oak leaves symbolize youth, vigor and strength, alluding to SUM's greeting "Hartuis", which connotes: "Inure your soul and body, so that you may have the fortitude to counter life's trials". The ripe fruit of the oak, its acorns, alludes to the fruit of daily hard work. In addition, the blue and yellow colors of the SUM emblem serve to remind of the colors of the Ukrainian national flag. Blue representing the sky and yellow representing the sun and the golden wheat fields.

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Name Group or organization / town Contact e-mail and phone Jeton Veseli Pristina 044 358 310 Veseli.jeton@gmail.com Mergime Hajdini Pristina Mergime.hajdini@gmail.com Gezim Koshi Mitrovica, Scout Club Trepca Ksv_trepca@yahoo.com Artan Milaimi Scouts of Kosovo, Prizren +377 44 483 665 artanmilaimi@hotmail.com Onat Baymak Scouts of Kosovo, Prizren + 377 44 920 009 onat@scout-rks.org Beyhan Graiyas Scouts of Kosovo, Prizren beyhan@scout-rks.org Perparim Krasniqi Podujeva + 377 44 867 314 Perparimi13@hotmail.com Ymer Zagragja Pristina + 377 44 123 781 Ymerzagragja1@hotmail.com Samir Begu KSV-Trepca Scout979@hotmail.com Albert Kopriva KSV – Trepca albertkopriva@live.com Faton Idrizaj Obiliq KNOT – KSA Cipi007@hotmail.com Sedat Zenuni KSV – Trepca Scut-s@live.com Agan Rrustemi Lipljan LYC Agan.rrustemi@gmail.com Leutrim Haliti Lipljan LYC Leutrim.haliti@gmail.com Craig Turpie European Scout Committee cturpie@scout.org David McKee European Regional Office dmckee@scout.org Jordan Bajraktarov European Regional Office jbajraktarov@scout.org

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^ Kroonenberg, Piet J. (1998). The Undaunted - The Survival and Revival of Scouting in Central and Eastern Europe. Geneva: Oriole International Publications. pp. 29–30, 41–48. ISBN 2880520037.
^ Riga (102) Scout Group

[1] Kroonenberg, Piet J. (1998). The Undaunted - The Survival and Revival of Scouting in Central and Eastern Europe. Geneva: Oriole International Publications. pp. 29–30, 41–48. ISBN 2880520037.

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