Spartakiad (Czechoslovakia)

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Spartakiad
1965 Spartakiad
Status	Inactive
Genre	Sports event
Location(s)	Prague
Country	Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
Inaugurated	1955 (1955)
Most recent	1990 (1990)
Sponsor	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

The Spartakiads or Spartakiades^[1] in Czechoslovakia (Czech and Slovak: Spartakiáda) were mass gymnastics events, designed to celebrate the Red Army's liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1945.^[2] The name refers to the 1921 Prague Spartakiad organised by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.^[3] They were organised by the Communist government as a replacement of the similar Sokol gatherings, which were disapproved by the regime and discontinued after World War II.^[4] The Spartakiads took place at the Strahov Stadium, the largest stadium ever built and the venue of the last pre-war Sokol gathering.^[5] Most of the organisers of the Spartakiads were former Sokol officials.^[3]