These verbs permeated administrative reports including those concerning the sport and physical culture movement A typical one boasted that the movement had reinforced successes in the construction of socialism expanding the health and hygiene of the masses in one short sentence sport reinforced expanded and constructed and did so with the result of improving the health of the masses and therefore of the nation the idiom of improvement was also closely related to the underlying raison of sport the aim of reaching higher going farther being stronger and breaking records the parallel positivism that referred to socialist transformation the body and sport showed how physical culture the culture of all thing physical resonated in socialist rhetoric for cosmological as well as instrumental and ideological reasons