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The festival has been held occasionally since 1947, mainly in communist states, as an event of global youth solidarity for democracy and against war and imperialism. The largest festival was the 6th , held in 1957 in Moscow , when 34,000 young people from 131 countries attended the event.
The World Festival of Youth is an international Youth festival which was held in Sirius, Russia, from February 29 – March 7, 2024. [2] [3] [4] [5]This event is not related to the World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS, to avoid confusion and sanctions – although it was originally positioned as such), held by the World Federation of Democratic Youth and the International Union of Students.
The festival attracted 34,000 people from 130 countries. This became possible after the political changes initiated by Nikita Khrushchev. It was the first World Festival of Youth and Students held in the Soviet Union. The Khrushchev reforms, known as Khrushchev Thaw, resulted in some changes in the Soviet Union. Foreigners could come for a ...
The 13th World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) was held from 1–8 July 1989 in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, and was organized by the World Federation of Democratic Youth. It was the largest international event staged in North Korea up until then.
The festival took place at the conclusion of the decade-long Algerian Civil War.In the months leading up to the festival there were sustained street actions by hundreds of thousands of working people and youth in Algeria protesting repression by national police forces and supporting the struggle by the indigenous Berber people, an ethnic nationality in Algeria and throughout North Africa, for ...
The 12th World Festival of Youth and Students was held from 27 July to 3 August 1985 in Moscow, capital city of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [1] [2] The festival was attended by 26,000 people from 157 countries. [3] The slogan of the festival was "For anti-imperialist solidarity, peace and friendship". [4]
The 1st World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) was held from 2 July to 20 August 1947 in Prague, capital city of the then Czechoslovak Republic. [1]The World Federation of Democratic Youth had decided to celebrate its first festival there in remembrance of the events of October and November 1939, when thousands of young Czechs rose in demonstrations against the occupation of the country ...
The 4th World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) was held from 2 to 16 August 1953 [1] in Bucharest, capital city of the then Romanian People's Republic. [2]The World Federation of Democratic Youth organized this festival against a background of what it described as persecution of communists, such as in West Germany, where Philipp Müller, a delegate to the 3rd WFYS had been killed during a ...