5th World Festival of Youth and Students

5th World Festival of Youth and Students
Host country	Poland
Date	1955 (1955)
Cities	Warsaw
Participants	30,000 , from 114 countries

The Fifth World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) was held in 1955, in Warsaw, the capital of the then People's Republic of Poland.

The World Federation of Democratic Youth organized this festival during the rise of the peaceful coexistence concept introduced by Nikita Khrushchev among the socialist bloc. At the end of the 1950s, the colonialism was in its last years, and in the same year, the Bandung Conference was held. The conference strongly criticized the western powers for keeping their colonial possessions. The need for a struggle against the danger of nuclear annihilation and for the end of colonialism dominated the festival.

More than 30,000 young people from 114 countries participated in this edition of the festival.

The motto of the festival was For Peace and Friendship – Against the Aggressive Imperialist Pacts.

The festival's sports programme featured an athletics competition.^[1]

References

↑ World Student Games (UIE). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.

External links

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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