Youth day

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Youth Day on the memorial stone for the voluntary labor service in Bregenz.

The Youth Day is a day of remembrance , of the importance of youth remembered as a phase of life. It is celebrated on different dates in different countries.

International

In 1999, the General Assembly has the United Nations in resolution 54/120 12 August as International Youth Day ( International Youth Day set).

Yugoslavia

Relay race through Slovenia (1960)
Relay in the House of Flowers , Belgrade

Youth Day ( Serbo-Croatian Dan Mladosti ) was a Yugoslav festival from 1957 to 1987 .

From 1945 onwards, May 25 was celebrated as the birthday of the Yugoslav head of state and party leader Josip Broz Tito with relay races across the country, in which hundreds of thousands of young Yugoslavs took part. The runs ended with the handover of the relay to Tito in Belgrade (these relay are now in the Museum of the History of Yugoslavia as part of a permanent exhibition). From 1957, May 25th was called "Youth Day", probably in response to the Soviet criticism of the personality cult after the XX. Party congress of the CPSU . From 1957 to 1987 only a national relay race was organized and the supporting program for May 25th was massively expanded in all Yugoslav republics with a wide variety of cultural, sporting, musical and political programs. The relay was handed over in the stadium of the Yugoslav People's Army in Belgrade as part of a massively staged closing event. In 1987 the last all-Yugoslavian celebration of Youth Day and also the last big relay race took place. Until the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991 and partly beyond that, Youth Day was still celebrated in various republics.

North Korea

In North Korea , Youth Day is celebrated annually on August 28th as the anniversary of the founding of the youth socialist organization "Kim Il-sung" in 1927.

Austria

In Austria in the 1930s, a youth day was set for May 27th (picture).

Romania

In October 2004, the Romanian Chamber of Deputies passed a law establishing May 2nd as National Youth Day. May 2nd has been a national holiday since 2008.

literature

  • Marc Zivojinovic: The youth relay in honor of the marshal - May 25th as the feast day of the cult of Tito. in: Südost-Forschungen, Volume 67 (2008), pp. 253-276.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Resolution 54/120 of the General Assembly of the United Nations  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / daccess-dds-ny.un.org  
  2. ↑ Ziua Națională a Tineretului , accessed on August 7, 2015 (Romanian)