History of sports patriotism

The article is devoted to the analysis and description of patriotism as the most important moral and social category of human consciousness. It is noted the special role in the military-patriotic education of the "Ready for Labor and Defense" complex and the related system of support and development of physical culture and sports in the USSR. Having emerged as a complex that combines military and sports training with agitation, the complex, no doubt, was an important part of the country's overall contribution to victory in the Great Patriotic War. Nevertheless, in the post-war period, there is a noticeable tendency towards the gradual transformation of the complex into a purely recreational complex.