Celebrating the peace race the tour de france of the eastlast held in 2006 the peace race was commonly known as the tour de france of the east due to its large participation of eastern bloc riders first organized in 1948 the peace race was largely held as a healer with the intent to relieve tension among central european countries hence its logo inclusion of a single white dove isadore being located in one of these former bloc countries has a strong affinity towards this race hence th