Exactly 34 years ago in Moscow

12 photos





Athlete Viktor Saneev circled the stadium with the Olympic torch



Removal of the Olympic flag



Flag of the Soviet national team was carrying wrestler Nikolai Balboshin



The most colorful part of the opening ceremony



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There was a place and a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church (the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Pimen and his future successor to Alexy II)



Yasser Arafat, then chairman of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, on the podium



Spectators



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