Mass games

North Korean mass games typically feature over 100,000 participants in a 90-minute display of gymnastics, dance, acrobatics, and dramatic performance, accompanied by music and other effects, all wrapped in a highly politicized package.

To be a fully developed communist man, one must acquire a revolutionary ideology, the knowledge of many fields, rich cultural attainments and a healthy and strong physique.

Mass gymnastics foster particularly healthy and strong physiques, a high degree of organization, discipline and collectivism in schoolchildren.

[citation needed] In East Germany, eight mass games, called the GDR Gymnastics and Sports Festival, were held in Leipzig.

Czechoslovakia also organized the Spartakiad, a mass gymnastics event meant to celebrate the country's liberation by the Soviet Red Army in 1945.