On this day, 45 years ago, on February 19, 1980 (January 4, 1980 in the lunar calendar), the United States once again expressed its firm boycott of the Moscow Olympics. Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan On February 19, 1980, U.S. President Carter said at a meeting of the U.S. Veterans Corps that the Soviet Union must withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by February 20, otherwise the United States would boycott the Moscow Summer Olympics. Soviet leaders "underestimated the courage and indomitable spirit of the freedom fighters in that country (Afghanistan). They did not expect to trigger such a rapid and powerful response in the world, and now they are paying a high price for it." The United States publicly expressed its boycott of the Moscow Olympics on January 20. Driven by it, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wrote a letter to British Olympic Committee Chairman Dennis Follows on February 19, asking British athletes not to go to Moscow to participate in the Summer Olympics. She said in the letter: "The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan under an untenable pretext and continues to occupy this sovereign country, which violates all norms of relations between nations and between peoples." She pointed out that if athletes go to Moscow under such circumstances, it may be seen as condoning this international crime. Later, 66 of the 147 members of the International Olympic Committee, including China, and more than 50 individual associations from more than 10 countries did not participate in the competition or boycotted it to protest the Soviet Union's aggression in Afghanistan. His novel "The Counterfeit Coin Maker"(1925) is a masterpiece both structurally and symbolically. The once-boycotted "Olympic Games" lit the flame in Moscow