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Sokol. SOKOL is a combat aircraft manufacturing facility that is also known as "Aviation plant 21", It is an aviation plant named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze.
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The Sokol movement (from the
Czech word for
falcon) is a
Czech and
Slavic youth movement and
gymnastics organization founded in
Prague in 1862 by Miroslav Tyrš and Jindřich Fügner. Primarily a fitness training center, the Sokol, also through lectures, discussions, and group outings provided what Tyrš viewed as physical, moral, and intellectual training for the nation. This training extended to members of all classes, and eventually to women and to Slavs in
Polish (
Sokół),
Slovene,
Croatian,
Serbian,
Ukrainian (
Sokil),
Macedonian and
Russian lands. In many of these nations, the organization also served as an early precursor to the
Scouting movements. Though officially an institution "above politics", the Sokol played an important part in the development of
Czech nationalism, providing a forum for the spread of mass-based nationalist ideologies. The articles published in the Sokol journal, lectures held in the Sokol libraries, and theatrical performances at the massive gymnastic festivals called Slets (Czech plural: Slety) helped to craft and disseminate the Czech nationalist mythology and version of history.
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