3rd World Festival of Youth and Students

3rd World Festival of Youth and Students
Demonstration at 3rd World Festival of Youth and Students
Host country	East Germany
Date	1951 (1951)
Cities	East Berlin
Participants	26,000, from 104 countries

The Third World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) was held in 1951, in East Berlin, East Germany, and organised by World Federation of Democratic Youth.

The third WFYS was held in a period of growing international tension between the Soviet Union and the western powers; it took place against the background of the Korean War and the spread of communism in Central Europe and China. The festival was meant to showcase the young German Democratic Republic, formed in the Soviet sector of postwar Germany.

The motto of the festival was: For Peace and Friendship – Against Nuclear Weapons.

People from west were obstructed from travelling to the festival by West German police and American military. Some of them where shot at, when trying to cross the border.^[1]

The festival's sports programme featured an athletics competition.^[2]

References

↑ Jan Myrdal - Ett femtiotal, p. 15–16.
↑ World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.

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Chronology of World Festivals of Youth and Students

World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS)

1940s-1960s	Czechoslovakia 1947 Hungary 1949 East Germany 1951 Romania 1953 Poland 1955 Soviet Union 1957 Austria 1959 Finland 1962 Bulgaria 1968

1970s-1990s	East Germany 1973 Cuba 1978 Soviet Union 1985 North Korea 1989 Cuba 1997

2000s-2020s	Algeria 2001 Venezuela 2005 South Africa 2010 Ecuador 2013

World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY)

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