Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1973 - 5 Pfennig

X. World Festival of Youth and Students 1973 in Berlin, capital of the GDR (2nd edition) The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic is the second to the X. World Festival of Youth and Students 1973 in Berlin, capital of the GDR Issue five more special multicolor postage stamps out. X. World Festival of Youth and Students In preparation for the X. World Festival, more than a hundred thousand girls and boys requested admission to the ranks of the Free German Youth (FDJ). More than 1.3 million young people acquired knowledge of the international youth movement during the FDJ academic year. More than 1.7 million members of the FDJ and 1.2 million Thälmann pioneers took on personal festival assignments in the festival's festival. The preparation of the Xth World Festival was and is characterized by an extensive international activity of the FDJ. The fraternal alliance with the Lenin Komsomol became even closer and more cordial, especially in preparation for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the USSR. The 900 youth objects of the German-Soviet friendship are a testimony to this. The global solidarity movement of the youth, especially for the peoples of Indo-China and the Middle East, supported and supported the youth of the GDR through diverse initiatives in production and uncountable concrete solidarity achievements. Together with 14 international and regional as well as 75 national youth organizations, the FDJ participated in the International Youth Conference for European Security in Florence in December 1971 and in Helsinki in August 1972 at the Youth Conference for European Security in Helsinki together with 400 representatives of the young generation of Europe. The Socialist Youth Association of the GDR actively participated in the World Meeting of Working People Youth in November 1972 in Moscow, which was a significant milestone in the international preparation for the X. World Festival. 271 youth organizations and youth sections of the unions from 115 countries participated. The Freie Deutsche Jugend actively participated in the campaign of the WBDJ and the ISB "The youth and students of the world complain to imperialism", which is attended by more than 230 youth organizations and around 120 student organizations from more than 100 countries , Six brigades of FDJ friendship made a concrete contribution to solidarity in building up the national economy in these countries in preparation for the Xth World Festival in Algeria, Guinea, Mali and Chile. Highlights of the festival preparation in the GDR were the two festival tours of friendship, which led from 7 to 9 October 1972 and 26 April to 2 May 1973 through the districts of the GDR. On the first trip alone, 104 foreign representatives from youth and student organizations from 50 countries took part. In more than 160 meetings and meetings, meetings were held with tens of thousands of our country's young people.