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...Festival, a quadrennial gathering of the young sponsored by the Communist bloc. It attracted 25,000 leftist youths from 134 countries, including 300 from the U.S. They were joined by at least 100,000 blue-shirted members of the German Democratic Republic's highly regimented Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ), Free German Youth...
...feeling of Gemütlichkeit began to evaporate when West German youths engaged their East German counterparts in political discussions. Among the FDJ "youth" were more than a few East Germans in their 30s and 40s with the thick necks and receding hairlines of state security men. As West German Socialist youth Leader Wolfgang Roth began to speak on inter-European cooperation, his speech was drowned out by FDJ troublemakers. But at week's end the exuberance of youth seemed to overcome ideology, and Communists and Socialists mingled congenially-at least for the moment...
East Germany's blood-Red Free German Youth Movement (FDJ) snared "peace doves" (as the Communists called the festival delegates) from Communist roosts all over the world. To swell the big flocks from East Germany, the other satellites and Russia, hundreds of Chinese and North Korean peace doves, some sporting Korean campaign medals, fluttered in via Moscow. The Reds also promised to deliver 100,000 from West Germany, but West Zone police turned back thousands of West German youths (although Red Zone policemen sent up smoke signals to guide delegates through gaps in West Zone border patrols...
Others decided to take their chances and go back to the Eastern zone. They sneaked back across the border at night, but the People's Police were ready for them. The cops promptly pounced on the kids, took away their FDJ membership cards and confiscated all the gifts they had brought with them from the West-the shoes, the candy, and the white bread...
...bulk of FDJ members may not always believe what the Communists tell them, but the trouble is that they do not believe anything else. Slowly, they are being worn into submission. The Communists have achieved a stranglehold on East Germany's younger generation-and they have no intention of letting...