Following the Soviet Union’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, New Zealand joined a United States-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games by Western nations. The government put considerable pressure on New Zealand athletes not to go, and only five competed in Moscow. The cartoonist contrasts the government’s promotion of the boycott with its support for increasing trade with the Soviets.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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Cartoon by Nevile Lodge
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