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I went to the Moscow Olympics 1980
I found most of the authorities reasonably non confrontational and people were generally curious about the world outside the 3CP. The US boycotted that event in protest of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. They tried to put a polish on it but it was clear that the whole workers paradise thing was bullshit and it was going to fall apart. A lot rattier than it is now. But generally the sense of it was, no one cared about the boycott. In fact w/o the US the other countries did well in the games and they simply used it to propaganda effect.