User:Aru Akimkhanova/Children of the festival
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Children of the festival or festival children — a household stereotype established in the USSR in the 1960s – 1970s, a cliche implying Soviet people, one of whose parents was non-European from Africa, Latin America, or, to a lesser extent, foreign Asia
First of all, this phraseologism refers to the children born in the Soviet Union to representatives of the Negroid race - people from “black Africa”, as being most noticeably different in appearance. It is believed that for the first time the mass appearance of Russian-Métis and Mulat-Russian caused the VI World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957, hence the name. The appearance of a sustainable combination could have been influenced by the opening line of the hymn of the festival: “Children of different nations, we live with a dream of peace ...” (“The Anthem of Democratic Youth”).
For a long time, the migration to Russia of people of the Negroid race and their subsequent rooting in a new homeland because of geographical remoteness could occur only sporadically, as isolated cases.
.The relatively noticeable beginning of the appearance of blacks in Russia can be considered the period of the industrialization of the USSR in the 1930s, when negroes were part of the engineers, businessmen and intellectuals who came from the US In a certain number they settled in the Soviet Union for years, and sometimes they started families and remained for good (see, for example, Patterson, James Lloydovich). At this stage, such cases across the country, however, remained rather isolated and not evaluated by the indigenous population as a special phenomenon.
The World Festival of Youth and Students of 1957 thus caused a “new wave” - unlike the previous ones, noticed by the Soviet society.In an article about the Moscow festival, Artem Krechetnikov, BBC, notes:
The Thaw brought with it new principles: foreigners are divided into good and bad, and the latter are immeasurably more recent; all working people are friends of the USSR; if they are not yet ready to build socialism, then they certainly want peace in the whole world, and on this basis we will face them ... Now everything Western has ceased to be rejected by chok ... A special term has appeared: "people of good will." Not absolutely ours, but not enemies. They came to Moscow. "