The 1984 Summer Games Boycott
On May 8, 1984, the Soviet Union announced it would not be participating in the Summer Olympics, being held in Los Angeles. It cited “chauvinistic sentiments and an anti-Soviet hysteria being whipped up in the United States”. 14 Eastern Bloc countries and allies joined them. Countries such as Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Mongolia, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Laos, and Cuba did not participate.