Sport in our country before the year 1989

    After the year 1945 in  Czechoslovakia appears the effort to unify all physical –educational corporations and communities into one mass organization. The Czechoslovak physical-educational union was established in the autumn of the year 1946.It represented all the existing institutions. But many of them did not agree with penetration of the communist ideology into the physical-educational activities  ( Sokol,  Orol ). But it was the year 1948 that dealt a decisive blow to democracy in sport and it was as well  the year of the communist political victory. The minor physical-educational organizations gradually collapsed and a unified institution – the Czechoslovak physical-educational union was established.
     
     A voluntary state armed organization – Zväzarm was established in the year 1951. To its basic tasks belonged the following : preparing recruits for the army service, army preparing soldier's reserves, preparing inhabitants for civil defension and army activity, e.g. sport aviation and parachutism, motorsport and motorism, radistics, sport-diving, sport shooting and kynology.
     
     Very important, not only for developing physical fitness but also for distributing communist ideology, were mass activities, physical-educational festivals and so called spartakiad as well as competitions in armed sports ( e.g.Dukla championship of army fitness which was organized in honors of fighting the Soviet and Czechoslovak soldiers in the Dukla pass during the world war II. The competitions were held in army disciplines – shooting, grenade throw,  cross-country running, etc. )
     
     The next means of linking the health strengthening and physical fitness with the ideological-educational field since year 1972 were the so called badges of fitness. The competition for badges of fitness was, in fact, a sum of disciplines directed to obtaining the basic motoric habits as well as supporting the ideological forming of a socialistic man.