10th World Festival of Youth and Students

1973 youth festival in Berlin

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10th World Festival of Youth and Students

Host country	East Germany
Dates	28 July – 5 August 1973
Motto	For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship
Cities	East Berlin
Participants	8 million (25,600 guests from 140 countries)
Follows	9th World Festival of Youth and Students
Precedes	11th World Festival of Youth and Students

The 10th World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) was held from 28 July to 5 August 1973 in East Berlin, the capital of East Germany. The festival, organised by the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) was previously hosted in East Berlin in 1951. Around 8 million visitors and 25,600 guests from 140 countries attended, under the motto, "For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship".^[1]

Notable attendees of the festival included Communist Party USA member and activist Angela Davis, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat.^[2] The Communist Party of Turkey also sent a notably higher delegation to the event compared to previous years.^[3] It was followed by the 11th World Festival of Youth and Students, hosted in Havana, Cuba in July to August 1978.

Gallery

Congregation of Free German Youth (FDJ) members in East Berlin
Panorama of the grandstand
Youth and students gathering on stage
Festival flower in Alexanderplatz
Badge at the Prora NVA museum depicting the logo
Soviet stamp commemorating the festival
Festival flower sculpture by Achim Kühn

References

^ "Chronology of World Festivals of Youth and Students". Archived from the original on 2011-05-14.
^ "Prag'dan Havana'ya Festival Tarihi" (PDF). Social History Research Foundation of Turkey – TUSTAV. April 11, 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 11, 2023.
^ Cavlı Çulfaz (2023). Hayattan Aklımda Kalanın Özeti. Sosyal Tarih Yayınları. ISBN 9786054513802.