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1962 WFDY World Youth Festival Helsinki Student Federation Pin Badge

1962 WFDY World Youth Festival Helsinki Student Federation Pin Badge

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  • A silver coloured metal badge with a 1.8cm high badge face and a long stick pin style fastener to the rear. The badge features the flower logo of the WFDY (in light blue) and the text VIII Festival Helsinki.


  • This is an historic pin badge from the 1962 8th World Youth Festival that was held in the city of Helsinki.


  • The organisation was formed in Great Britain in 1945, over 75 years ago, 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.
  • There have been many notable speakers at the conferences including Gagarin, Castro, Arafat, Mandela and Putin.

 

  • The World Festival of Youth and Students is an international event, organized by the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), a left-wing youth organization, jointly with the International Union of Students since 1947.

    There have been 18 events to date, the first was in Prague two years after the end of WW2.

    • 1947 Czechoslovakia
    • 1949 Hungary
    • 1951 East Germany
    • 1953 Romania
    • 1955 Poland
    • 1957 Soviet Union
    • 1959 Austria
    • 1962 Finland
    • 1968 Bulgaria
    • 1973 East Germany
    • 1978 Cuba
    • 1985 Soviet Union
    • 1989 North Korea
    • 1997 Cuba
    • 2001 Algeria
    • 2005 Venezuela
    • 2010 South Africa
    • 2017 Russia
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