Union of Communist Youth

Union of Communist Youth
UTC

Romanian: Uniunea Tineretului Comunist
Founded1922
Dissolved1989
HeadquartersBucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania
Ideology
Mother partyRomanian Communist Party
National affiliationFront of Socialist Unity and Democracy
International affiliationWorld Federation of Democratic Youth
NewspaperScînteia Tineretului
8th Congress of the UTC, held in Bucharest in July 1965
1972 postage stamp commemorating the UTC's 50th anniversary

The Union of Communist Youth (Romanian: Uniunea Tineretului Comunist; UTC) was the Romanian Communist Party's youth organisation. Like many Young Communist organisations, it was modelled after the Soviet Komsomol. It aimed to cultivate young cadres into the party, as well as to help create the "new man" envisioned by communist ideologues.