For sale is this 2 Inch Celluloid Pinback Button, which I believe is in really great shape.  However, that is only my belief.  Please see photos for condition and you be the judge.  Returns are not accepted unless the pin has significant damage or defects not visible in the photos or otherwise noted.   

GUARANTEED TO BE AUTHENTIC AND ORIGINAL

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This pin was issued and sold in 1980 to raise funds and support for the U.S. led boycott of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow that year, to protest the late 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In total, 65 nations refused to participate in the games, whereas 80 countries sent athletes to compete. 

1980 Olympic Boycott

In 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow to protest the late 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In total, 65 nations refused to participate in the games, whereas 80 countries sent athletes to compete. Within the United States, there was public support for the boycott.

In early 1980, the movement toward either boycotting the games altogether or moving them out of the Soviet Union gained momentum.  Russian dissident Andrei Sakharov called for a boycott in early January. On January 14, 1980, the Carter Administration joined Sakharov by setting a deadline by which the Soviet Union must pull out of Afghanistan or face consequences including an international boycott of the games. When the deadline passed a month later without any change to the situation in Central Asia, Carter pushed U.S. allies to pull their Olympic teams from the upcoming games.

In organizing the boycott and rallying support behind it, the Carter Administration had wanted to express the extent of international displeasure with the invasion of Afghanistan, and to pressure the Soviets to pull their armies out of the conflict. In actuality, the Soviet-Afghan War continued and did not end until 1989.

The Soviets reacted to the boycott by retaliating and leading a communist-bloc boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games held in Los Angeles. These Olympic boycotts were just one manifestation of the cooling relations between the United States and the Soviet Union in the early 1980s.

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