10th World Festival of Youth and Students

{{Short description|1973 youth festival in Berlin}}

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{{Infobox summit meeting

| name = 10th World Festival of Youth and Students

| logo = Fmje-10.jpg

| dates = 28 July – 5 August 1973

| country = {{flag|East Germany}}

| cities = {{flag|East Berlin}}

| motto = For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship

| participants = 8 million (25,600 guests from 140 countries)

| website =

| follows = 9th World Festival of Youth and Students

| precedes = 11th World Festival of Youth and Students

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The 10th World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) was held from 28 July to 5 August 1973 in East Berlin, the capital of East Germany. The festival, organised by the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) was previously hosted in East Berlin in 1951. Around 8 million visitors and 25,600 guests from 140 countries attended, under the motto, "For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship".{{Cite web|title=Chronology of World Festivals of Youth and Students|url=http://www.chengetheworld.org/fr/index.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514081843/http://www.chengetheworld.org/fr/index.php?op=page&pid=870|archive-date=2011-05-14}}

Notable attendees of the festival included Communist Party USA member and activist Angela Davis, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat.{{cite magazine | title = Prag'dan Havana'ya Festival Tarihi|magazine=Social History Research Foundation of Turkey – TUSTAV|url=http://www.tustav.org/yayinlar/sureli_yayinlar/iyg/iyg_sayi_60.pdf|date=April 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411103436/https://www.tustav.org/yayinlar/sureli_yayinlar/iyg/iyg_sayi_60.pdf|archive-date=April 11, 2023}} The Communist Party of Turkey also sent a notably higher delegation to the event compared to previous years.{{cite book|author=Cavlı Çulfaz|date=2023|title=Hayattan Aklımda Kalanın Özeti|url=https://www.tustav.org/sosyal-tarih-yayinlari/hayattan-aklimda-kalanin-ozeti/|publisher=Sosyal Tarih Yayınları|isbn=9786054513802}} It was followed by the 11th World Festival of Youth and Students, hosted in Havana, Cuba in July to August 1978.