10 facts about the ONLY USSR Olympic Games in history (PHOTOS)

The United States and its allies didn’t show up to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, due to the diplomatic standoff over the war in Afghanistan. The USSR responded by boycotting the following Games, which took place in Los Angeles in 1984.

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