{"product_id":"1947-rare-wfdy-world-youth-festival-prague-student-federation-pin-badge","title":"1947 Rare WFDY World Youth Festival Prague Student Federation Pin Badge","description":"\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eA silver coloured metal badge with a 3cm wide badge face and a long stick pin style fastener to the rear. The badge features the text WORLD YOUTH FESTIVAL PRAHA 1947\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is an historic pin badge, made for the 1947 inaugural World Youth Festival.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe organisation was formed in Great Britain in 1945, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/ry-jm.ycl-ljc.ca\/75-years-of-wfdy\/\"\u003eover 75 years ago\u003c\/a\u003e, to unite the youth of the allied nations after WW2. It was, broadly speaking, an anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, world peace movement. However, around this time the post war political atmosphere was edging towards East \/ West division and the organisation was suspected of having pro socialist leanings. The General Secretary of WFDY was the former head of the Youth Communist Movement and the organisation became the subject of CIA scrutiny.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere have been many notable speakers at the conferences including Gagarin, Castro, Arafat, Mandela and Putin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe World Festival of Youth and Students is an international event, organized by the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wfdy.org\/\"\u003eWorld Federation of Democratic Youth\u003c\/a\u003e (WFDY), a left-wing youth organization, jointly with the International Union of Students since 1947.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere have been 18 events to date, the first was in Prague two years after the end of WW2.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1947 Czechoslovakia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1949 Hungary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1951 East Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1953 Romania\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1955 Poland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1957 Soviet Union\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1959 Austria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1962 Finland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1968 Bulgaria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1973 East Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1978 Cuba\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1985 Soviet Union\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1989 North Korea\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1997 Cuba\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2001 Algeria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2005 Venezuela\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2010 South Africa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2017 Russia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Badgecrazy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58077293183324,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0796\/3272\/8412\/files\/Screenshot2026-06-15080750.png?v=1781504330","url":"https:\/\/shop.badgecrazy.com\/products\/1947-rare-wfdy-world-youth-festival-prague-student-federation-pin-badge","provider":"Badgecrazy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}