“In calling for the mobilization of the world youth, the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) and the International Union of Students (IUS), both Communist-front organization, are holding international conferences in Bucharest this summer. [. . .] According to Radio Bucharest, July 4, 1953, the central theme of the Youth Festival is to be ‘Peace! Friendship!’ In view of the this sloga, it is interesting to see how the Communists have been conditioning their youth for the achievement of these desirable goals. In Bulgaria in honor of the festival, according to Sofia Radio, July 22, thousands of boys and girls organized competitions, the most striking of which was that of the youths of Vodni Park, Zikul and Stokite villages, who organized a visit to the border guard barracks. There, ‘youths and border guard pledged to intensify their revolutionary vigilance and to make the southern front unpenetrable’ ” (p. 1).
United States. Department of State. Division of Research for USSR Eastern Europe. (1953). Peace and friendship, communist fashion. Washington, D.C.: [U.S. Dept. of State, Intelligence Research Office, Division of Research for USSR and Eastern Europe?].
