Youth World Festival Events
in wich Poland was/is involved

Youth World Festival

The World Festival of Youth and Students was an international event, organised by
year        place                         
1947     Prague, Czechoslovakia
1949     Budapest, Hungary
1951     Berlin (East), GDR
1953     Bucharest, Romania
1955     Warsaw, Poland
1957     Moscow, USSR
1959     Vienna, Austria
1962     Helsinki, Finland
1968     Sofia, Bulgaria
1973     Berlin (East), GDR
1978     Havanna, Cuba
1985     Moscow, USSR
1989     Pyongyang, North Korea
1997     Havanna, Cuba
2001     Algiers, Algeria
2005     Caracas, Venezuela
2010     Pretoria, South Africa
2013     Quito, Ecuador

the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), a left-wing youth organisation,
jointly with the International Union of Students since 1947.
The visitors of the world festivals discussed and celebrated, they heard and offered
music and lectures. The meetings had political and cultural subjects.
The largest festival was the 6th, held in 1957 in Moscow, when 34,000 young people
from 131 countries attended the event.
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Polonica stamps:

Bulgaria 1955, 30 VII
Cuba 1978, 28 VII
Czechoslovakia 1955, 20 VII
Romania 1962, 06 VII
Vietnam 1985, 20 VI