World Festival of Youth and Students

World Festival of Youth and Students is an international event, organized by the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), 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.

Festival	Year	Host	Participants	Countries	Official Motto
1st	1947	Prague, Czechoslovakia	17,000	71	Youth Unite, Forward for Lasting Peace!
2nd	1949	Budapest, Hungary	20,000	82	Youth Unite, Forward for Lasting Peace, Democracy, National Independence and a better future for the people
3rd	1951	Berlin (East), GDR	26,000	104	For Peace and Friendship – Against Nuclear Weapons
4th	1953	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, USSR	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	Sofia, Bulgaria	20,000	138	For Solidarity, Peace and Friendship
10th	1973	Berlin (East), GDR	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, USSR	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	15,000	144	For Peace and Solidarity, We Struggle Against Imperialism and War

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