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The (ANJV; ) was a political youth movement in the Netherlands. The ANJV was a member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth.
History
The predecessor of the ANJV was the .
The ANJV was founded on 15 June 1945, in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Similar in organization to the East German Freie Deutsche Jugend, the ANJV was nominally an independent "progressive" youth organisation, but was ideologically heavily influenced by communism, and its leadership controlled by members of the (Communist Party of the Netherlands). This is as opposed to other political youth organisations in the Netherlands, such as the or the , which are directly related to the and the , respectively.
In its first three years of its existence, the ANJV enjoyed significant popularity, numbering 15,000 members just after its founding in 1945, owing to its broad anti-fascist orientation and attempts by its leadership to unite left-wing youth under a single banner. The political fallout from the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary further contributed to the movement's marginalisation.