Heading into the 1980 Summer Olympic Games, public sentiment was in favor of President Jimmy Carter’s call to boycott the Moscow Olympic Games. The Soviet Union had recently invaded Afghanistan and assassinated the country’s prime minister. Carter and other leaders around the world were calling the invasion the greatest threat to world since World War II.
1980 Olympic Boycott: Politics in the Olympic Games
According to the Carter Administration, there also were other parallels to World War II and the Nazi Party. In 1936, the Olympic Games were held in Berlin, Germany. Adolf Hitler used the Olympic Games to validate Germany and the Nazi Party, and according to then-Vice President Walter Mondale, the Soviet government was doing the same.
“[The Soviet government was] using the Moscow Olympics very similar to the way in which Hitler used the 1936 Olympics, trying to show the world they were a credible, acceptable and a normal nation,” Mondale told Tom and Jerry Caraccioli in their book, Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. "I saw how they were using the upcoming Moscow Olympics to flaunt their legitimacy in the eyes of their citizens and around the world. … [The Olympic Games] were central to the Soviet political strategy at home and abroad.
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