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The Sokolstvo was founded and developed within the Ethnocentrism which marked the social situation of its time. It is characterised by group exercises, strengthening and developing the relationships within the groups, introducing the military gymnastics which forms strong and brave soldiers with strong body and determination for the defence from the enemy. In one word, a new army was formed – the civil army, and not the individuals who were to state the demands of the society.

As a Slavic cultural, national-liberational and liberal movement, Sokolstvo was founded in Bohemia in 1862 under the leadership of a Czech doctor Miroslav Tirsh.
Sokolstvo soon spread into all the Slavic countries, aiming at the freedom and the union of the Slavs; thus the Sokolstvo reached the area where the Serbian people lived.

The Serbian Sokolstvo was born in March 1904, when the Austria-Hungarian government approved the Rules of the Serbian Sokolstvo in Sremski Karlovci, and ever since that day, dr Laza Popovi? devoted himself completely to the Serbian Sokolstvo.

In the Yugoslav Kingdom the Sokolstvo presented a pacifistic and universally human organization which tried to cover up its liberal-ideological grounds because of the political situation at the time.

After the Second World War the Sokolstvo was treated as a fascist, police and antisocial organization.

In this post you will be able to see some really old and rare Sokolstvo posters.

Authored by Nikola Lazarevic

Web Designer, Blogger, M.Sc in Electronic Engineering from Nis, Serbia. Founder of webexpedition18.com. You can find me on Twitter.