XXII 1980 Moscow Olympiad, sport art vintage poster.

Title: XXII 1980 MOSCOW OLYMPIAD (right middle text) ONLY STRENGTH AND SKILL CONQUER HEIGHTS AND DISTANCES. ON THE WAY TO THE OLYMPIC MEDAL, THE FIRST STEP IS THE GTO BADGE. (Bottom text)
 
Histotical context: Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR (Russian: «Готов к труду и обороне СССР» Gotov k trudu i oborone SSSR), abbreviated as GTO (Russian: ГТО) was the All-Union physical culture training programme, introduced in the USSR on March 11, 1931 on the initiative of the Komsomol. It was a complement to the Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR. While the latter provided Soviet physical education system requirements only for athletes, GTO was a programme for all Soviet people of almost all ages. By the year 1976, 220 million people were awarded GTO badges (see picture 3) ,while in 1986 the tests were passed by 33.9 million people. Size: 32x51cm Printed around 1975-1980
 
Artist: D. Palui
 
Printing technique: silkscreen
 
Material: cardboard
 
Publisher: Agitplakat Dona designed by AgitArtStudio
 
Country: Rostov-on-Don,Russia, Soviet Union 
 
Condition: good