Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1973 - 25 Pfennig

X. World Festival of Youth and Students 1973 in Berlin, Capital of the GDR (1st Edition) The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic is the first to the X. World Festival of Youth and Students 1973 in Berlin, capital of the GDR Issue two multicolored special postage stamps with surcharge out. The sums raised will be given to the Central Council of Free German Youth for the preparation and conduct of the Xth World Festival. X. World Festival of Youth and Students The Xth World Festival of Youth and Students will be held in Berlin, the capital of the German Democratic Republic, from 28 July to 5 August 1973, which was discussed at the inaugural session of the International Preparatory Committee on 20th January 1972 in Sofia decided. World Festivals are highlights in the struggle of the progressive youth of all continents for peace and friendship, against imperialism and war. The traditions of the festival movement are over a quarter of a century old. The nine previous festivals have brought together many layers of the younger generation and contributed to strengthening the joint struggle of youth and student organizations with different political programs and ideological views. On 5./6. In October 1972, the 2nd session of the International Preparatory Committee for the 10th World Festival (IVK) took place in the capital of the GDR. Representatives from 62 countries adopted the slogan, the framework program and the creation of an international solidarity fund and appointed the Standing Committee of the IVK. Unanimously, all the delegates present at the meeting expressed that the X. Festival, under the slogan "For anti-imperialist solidarity, peace and friendship", will provide decisive impulses for the joint struggle of youth against imperialism, for peace and social progress In the summer of 1973, girls and boys from many countries of the world will, for the first time, experience and get to know our socialist country, as in the brotherly nation that has been rallying around the Soviet Union socialist community serves the well-being of the people and the young generation bears considerable responsibility in all areas of social life.Frequently high demands are placed on the members and leaders of the Free German Youth (FDJ) of the GDR in preparation for the Xth World Festival, the FDJ's 4th FWJ Central Council on February 29, 1972, concluded. An important expression of the echo that festival preparation has found is the call for competition that the FDJ members of the VEB Transformatorenwerk Karl Liebknecht "Berlin Oberschöneweide to all basic organizations of the FDJ on 30 September 1972 in the" young world "published. With the speech of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Erich Honecker, at the Central Functionary Conference of the Free German Youth on October 20, 1972 and the call for the festival contingent, a new stage of preparing the youth of the GDR for the Xth World Festival is initiated and the competition has developed from group to group and from basic organization to basic organization.