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Spartakiad logo #21000[Albania] The Albanian Spartakiad was an event similar to the USSR Spartakiad and to the Czechoslovakian Spartakiad. Six such events had been held in Albania during Communist rule (in 1959, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, and 1989). The Spartakiad included a mass gymnastics display, professional and amateurial sports championships. It was the bigge...
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Spartakiad logo #21000[Czechoslovakia] The Spartakiads in Czechoslovakia (Spartakiáda, Spartakiáda) were mass gymnastics events, designed to celebrate the Red Army`s liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1945. They were organised by the Communist government as a replacement of the Sokol gatherings, which were disapproved by the regime and discontinued after World Wa...
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Spartakiad logo #21000[Soviet Union] Spartakiad (Спартакиада, Spartakiada) was traditional mass complex sports competitions. As Spartakiads, there started to be called (in honor of Spartacus) competitions of working sports unions initially in the 1920s in number of European countries (Germany, Czechoslovakia, USSR) opposite to competitions of bourgeoi...
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Spartakiad logo #23798Spartacus Games. Soviet-organized sporting competition that celebrated proletarian values rather than the stratified “Olympian” values of the more famous games. Named in honor of the slave rebel Spartacus, the Spartacus Games lapsed once Soviet teams began to participate in the Olympics.
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