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1957 International Youth Festival—was held in Moscow from July 29 to August 11, 1957 and was the first such festival held in the USSR. Organized by the Komsomol at the request of Khrushchev’s Kremlin, the festival was intended to refute Western claims that the Soviet Union remained the repressive and isolated state it had been under Stalin. In Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1970, Gleb Tsipursky writes that “policy makers aspired to create a positive image among foreign audiences, both among the visitors themselves and in foreign press organs, through Soviet commitment to values such as internationalism, openness, youthhood, peace, and global unity.” bron