CURT THE "KILIAN" MOVEMENT FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING
Munich, May 24 (RFE) On 1 May 1961 a widespread and permanent movement was started in Hungary, the so-called "Kilian" movement for physical training.
This movement has been organized in accordance with the guiding principles contained in the theses on "interpretation of the Cultural Policy of the HSWP in Physical Training and Sports". The theses were prepared by a theoretical work group and approved by the Politburo. Fall text of the theses is not available, reference to them can only be made on the basis of an excerpt published in "Nepszabadsag" of 2 July 1959:
The chief aim of socialist physical training and sports is to contribute with their specific means to the building and protection of socialist society They have to help form the socialist individual in whom intellectual richness, moral purity and physical perfection can be found, protect and develop the health of the youth and the workers, promote increased work productivity and the pre-military training of the youth, ensure that sportsmen be drawn into social life and help satisfy the cultural and entertainment requirements of the masses.
Educating for work has to be the center of the education of sportsmen.
Our Party supports the effort to develop a related and united system of physical training in the country which endeavors to ensure physical training and sports opportunities for every generation in kindergartens, schools, universities, factories, offices, villages and in the armed forces.
The direction of physical training and sports is based on three main principles: the leading role of the Party, the guiding and helping work of the state and extensive social activity, carried out by the trade unions and the KISZ (Communist Youth Association).
The Presidium of the Hungarian Physical Training and Sports Council (set up under Decree No.4 of 12 January 1958), following the Soviet pattern, introduced badge-winning movements and competitions .x) Based on the experiences of these the Presidium of
x) The sports movements: "Ready to Work and Fight", "Ready for Work and Defense", World Youth Festival competitions, Olympic badge-winning movement, rural spartachiades.
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the Physical Training and Sports Council worked out draft statutes for a widespread and permanent badge-winning movement. At an extended meeting in June 1960 the Council discussed the draft statutes and submitted them for nation-wide discussion. On 10 November 1960 the Presidium of the Council passed the final statutes, based on the material used in the discussion. Accordingly the "Kilian" Movement for Physical Training is to be started on 1 May 1961 under the national guidance of the Hungarian Physical Training and Sports Council and the local guidance of the local physical training and sports councils ( Nepsport , 27 November 1960). In January 1961 a committee for the direction of the "Kalian" Movement for Physical Training was set up. In March of this year the government passed a resolution on the tasks of the executive committees of the councils connected with this movement ("Nepszava", 24 March 1961).
According to the statutes, the "Kilian" Movement for Physical Training is a permanent, badge-winning movement, ensuring regular activity, which comprises every basic physical training and sports activity.
The movement can be joined by every Hungarian citizen who has attained the age of six and has been admitted to the first grade of primary school.
The "Kilian" Movement is appropriately connected with the system of the trial period for the pioneers, with the KISZ movement "The Youth for Socialism", the factory championships of the trade unions and the technical championships of the Hangarian Defense and Sports Association. In contrast to the old badge-winning movements, the "Kilian" Movement determines the achievements on the basis of a system of scores. Accordingly the participants are only able to obtain the individual grades through continuous and systematic sports activity. Among its new features is the fact that beside the individual sports branches (a total of 28 including parachute jumping and sport shooting) and group sport branches (a total of seven), it introduces rambling. This comprises: hikes, skiing, bicycle, motorcycle, car and motorboat excursions. As a precondition for obtaining the first badge the statutes make it compulsory for the participant to learn one type of swimming or, where this is not possible, to ride a bicycle.
The "Kilian" Movement for Physical Training is a new initiative. On the basis of experience gained from previous sports movements the expectations attached to it are presumably exaggerated.
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