However, James and his team mates were unable to compete when President Jimmy Carter boycotted the games following the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan.
War theme is mostly noticed in songs like "Te, kogo ryadom net" ("Те, кого рядом нет", Those Who Are Not Around) (which is dedicated to those who died in the war in Afghanistan) and "Na voyne" ("На войне", At War) (in memory of the veterans of World War II).
He was on the delegation which eventually persuaded the Russians to leave Afghanistan.
Khalifa is said to have trained with Osama Bin Laden in the mujahideen camps in Afghanistan during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was a part of a package of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan, which featured on the B-side of the Go to Hell single, was a response to the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
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In Columbia Pictures' 1988 Soviet/Afghanistan War drama The Beast, the Super Frelon was used to represent Communist-bloc helicopters, being that no examples of Soviet aircraft were available for use due to the existence of the Iron Curtain, which would collapse three years later.
Larson was selected for the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team, but was unable to compete because U.S. President Jimmy Carter organized the boycott of the Moscow Olympics in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Since Darya's television debut on Afghanistan's television network in 1980, he has released over two dozen albums-the acclaimed ones produced in exile, many of which deal with the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the resulting misfortunes of the war-torn nation.
As a correspondent and free-lance journalist he witnessed conflicts from the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan to the Balkans, and the so-called, "forgotten wars" in Africa.
1980 Summer Olympics, Egypt Boycotted the Moscow Games in a United States led boycott to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
From 1987 to 1989 he serviced with the 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment of the Soviet Combined Forces in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
In the 1980s, Jalaluddin Haqqani was cultivated as a "unilateral" asset of the CIA and received tens of thousands of dollars in cash for his work in fighting the Soviet-led Afghan forces in Afghanistan, according to an account in The Bin Ladens, a 2008 book by Steve Coll.
In 1980 New Zealand sent a small rump team to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, although the government persuaded most local sporting bodies to join the boycott in protest at the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
A student in Persian at Moscow State University, he later worked as an interpreter in Iran and Afghanistan during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.