To your point— sport clubs were popular in the Soviet Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Sports_Societies_of_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.o

To your point— sport clubs were popular in the Soviet Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Sports_Societies_of_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Sports_Societies_of_...