World Festival of Youth and Students

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2005.

The World Festival of Youth and Students is an international event, organized by the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), a left-wing youth organization, jointly with the International Union of Students since 1947. The largest festival was the 6th, held in 1957 in Moscow, when 34,000 young people from 131 countries attended the event.

[edit] Chronology

#	Year	Host	Number of participants	Number of participating countries	Official motto
1st	1947	Prague, Czechoslovakia	17,000	71	"Youth Unite, Forward for Lasting Peace!"
2nd	1949	Budapest, Hungary	20,000	82	"Youth Unite, Forward for Lasting Peace, Democracy, National Independence and a better future for the people"
3rd	1951	Berlin (East), GDR	26,000	104	"For Peace and Friendship – Against Nuclear Weapons"
4th	1953	Bucharest, Romania	30,000	111	"For Peace and Friendship"
5th	1955	Warsaw, Poland	30,000	114	"For Peace and Friendship – Against the Aggressive Imperialist Pacts"
6th	1957	Moscow, USSR	34,000	131	"For Peace and Friendship"
7th	1959	Vienna, Austria	18,000	112	"For Peace and Friendship and Peaceful Coexistence"
8th	1962	Helsinki, Finland	18,000	137	"For Peace and Friendship"
9th	1968	Sofia, Bulgaria	20,000	138	"For Solidarity, Peace and Friendship"
10th	1973	Berlin (East), GDR	25,600	140	"For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship"
11th	1978	Havana, Cuba	18,500	145	"For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship"
12th	1985	Moscow, USSR	26,000	157	"For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship"
13th	1989	Pyongyang, North Korea	22,000	177	"For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship"
14th	1997	Havana, Cuba	12,325	136	"For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship"
15th	2001	Algiers, Algeria	6,500	110	"Let’s Globalize the Struggle For Peace, Solidarity, Development, Against Imperialism"
16th	2005	Caracas, Venezuela	15,000	144	"For Peace and Solidarity, We Struggle Against Imperialism and War"