World Festival of Youth and Students
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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. This festival also marked the international debut of the song "Moscow Nights", which subsequently went on to become perhaps the most widely recognized Russian song in the world.
During the Cold War these festivals were held, with some exceptions, in capitals of Communist states and were a powerful tool of Communist propaganda. [1]
The next festival is to be in July-August 2009 in Minsk, Belarus.[2]
[edit] Chronology
| # | Year | Host | Participants | Countries | Motto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1947 |  Prague, Czechoslovakia |
17,000 | 71 | "Youth Unite, Forward for Lasting Peace!" |
| 2nd | 1949 | .svg/22px-Flag_of_Hungary_(1946-1949,_1956-1957).svg.png){kind=small} Budapest, Hungary |
20,000 | 82 | "Youth Unite, Forward for Lasting Peace, Democracy, National Independence and a better future for the people" |
| 3rd | 1951 |  East Berlin, East Germany |
26,000 | 104 | "For Peace and Friendship – Against Nuclear Weapons" |
| 4th | 1953 | .svg/22px-Flag_of_Romania_(1952-1965).svg.png){kind=small} 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, Soviet Union |
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 | .png/22px-Flag_of_Bulgaria_(1967).png){kind=small} Sofia, Bulgaria |
20,000 | 138 | "For Solidarity, Peace and Friendship" |
| 10th | 1973 |  East Berlin, East Germany |
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, Soviet Union |
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 |
25,000 | 144 | "For Peace and Solidarity, We Struggle Against Imperialism and War" |
| 17th | 2009 |  Minsk, Belarus |
TBD | TBD | "We are for the World without Wars" |
[edit] References
- ^ John C. Clews (1964) Communist Propaganda techniques, printed in the USA by Praeger and in Great Britain
- ^ Belarus Hosts the XVII World Festival of Youth and Students
[edit] External links
- Chronology of World Festivals of Youth and Students
- 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, Official Website
- Video of the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students in Caracas
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