The country has lived without the Komsomol for 35 years, which dissolved a few months before the official collapse of the Soviet Union. Of course, the Komsomol leadership at that time kept its nose to the wind and understood where things were inevitably going, but they still could not rush to eliminate the Komsomol in the alarming autumn of 1991, but waited until the end of December, until the final disappearance of old realities and the formation of new ones. Moreover, the Komsomol historically always acted after the party, but here the chain of command and tradition was violated, which could not but leave an imprint on the memory of the Komsomol. Yes, and former Komsomol members passed into another era with confused feelings and with the feeling of a hastily hung white flag, which could not but affect the moods and fate of those who happened to survive an era of great changes. Meanwhile, the country's present is largely determined by generations of former Komsomol members traumatized by the untimely demise of the previous regime. Of course, for one blow they give two without loss, but psychological traumas of the past tend to distort ideas about the present and the future. Therefore, today's Komsomol is an opportunity not only to remember the slogans of the past and the romance of the construction brigades, but also to rethink some types of Komsomol heritage, which do not always and in all respects correspond to the requirements of the current agenda.