at the dawn of the khrushchev thaw , the sixth world youth festival opened students.ies were allowed to move freely around moscow. communication with them by our citizens was not persecuted in any way. it was finally possible to ask questions about the overseas inhabitants. by the way, then many of the illusions of soviet young people in this regard were shattered , a completely unknown liberty taken at the festival was a jazz competition, at which the youth orchestra of the central house of arts workers, under the direction of zaulsky, took second place, english jazz. never again, either before or after the festival of '57, has the country seen such an atmosphere of openness and goodwill; this only happens when something happens for the first time; imagine what is here behind the kremlin wall in post-stalin moscow, when people were still returning from distant exiles, residents of half the planet gathered in this square and communicated informally, forgetting about protocol prohibitions, but nevertheless, soon after the festival, the respected newspaper of soviet cul