10th World Festival of Youth and Students

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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.

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