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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