Summer 1953, Bucharest: The Third World Youth Congress and The Fourth World Youth Festival. The Italian Concerns

On summer 1953, Bucharest hosted the Third World Youth Congress and the Fourth World Youth Festival. The World Youth Congress and the World Youth Festival were periodically settled up by the World Federation of Democratic Youth, an international organization close to the Soviet Union. These periodic events got thousands and thousands of young peopl e together from around the world. Most of participants were communists, but the Festival in particular attracted youth with different political ide as. Obviously, during these occasions, communist authorities tried to spread their p ropaganda, creating great concern among Western countries and especiall y Italy. Because its timing, the events held in Bucharest on summer 1953 became a major issue among Western diplomacie