1st World Festival of Youth and Students
- 1st World Festival of Youth and Students
Infobox WFYS |
edition = 1st
host = Czechoslovakia
year = 1947
participants = 17,000
countries = 71
The First World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) was held in 1947, in Prague, the capital of the then Czechoslovak Republic.
The World Federation of Democratic Youth had decided to celebrate its first festival there in remembrance of the events of October and November of 1939, when thousands of young Czechs rose in demonstrations against the occupation of the country by Nazi Germany. This caused a wave of repression that included the closing of all the superior schools, the arrest of more than 1850 students, and the internment of 1200 in the Nazi concentration camps. The WFYS also paid tribute to the Czech cities of Lidice and Ležáky, which were eradicated as a response to the assassination of the German governor Reinhard Heydrich, nicknamed "The Butcher of Prague".
The WFYS was officially inaugurated before a crowd of 17,000 at Strahov Stadium on the afternoon of July 25, 1947. The blue flag with the emblem of the World Federation of Democratic Youth was raised and, for the first time, the anthem of Democratic Youth, composed by Anatoli Novikov with lyrics by Lev Oshanin, was heard.
This was the longest Festival in its history, lasting almost four weeks.
The motto of the festival was "Youth Unite, Forward for Lasting Peace!".
See also
* World Festival of Youth and Students
* World Federation of Democratic Youth
External links
* [http://www.chengetheworld.org/fr/index.php?op=page&pid=870 Chronology of World Festivals of Youth and Students]
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