A SUPPLEMENT OF THINKING YOUTH FESTIVAL AS COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA: REFLECTIONS ON THE OLD NEW ORDER
A SUPPLEMENT OF THINKING YOUTH FESTIVAL AS COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA: REFLECTIONS ON THE OLD NEW ORDER

Summary/Abstract: My paper brings forth an event that took place in Romania in 1953, a youth festival that functioned as communist propaganda . I am trying to decode the mass media perception of the staged event, which occurred few months after Stalin’s death. The festival was an event of a great magnitude, concentrating many efforts and was perceived as an applied ideology. It started with the Communist Youth Third Congress (24th – 30th of July 1953) followed by the Global Youth Festival (the first 2 weeks of August 1953). For this review, I consulted particularly two newspapers from that period in order to observe the way the festival was both built as an event and reflected as an event. The stereotypes encountered during the festival as religious counterfeit, strategies for mass-control on the one hand, and stereotypes regarding the foreigners’ perception of this time and space on the other hand, opened new territories as the paper unfolded.

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