How did the Soviet Union get to host the 1980 Olympic Games

The vote at the International Olympic Committee session on October 23, 1974, in Vienna was dramatic: sports officials had to choose who would host the 1980 Games. With a final voting score of 39:20, Moscow won. But how did the city do it?

Not least because of Sergei Pavlov, the ambitious chairman of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sports under the USSR Council of Ministers. He wanted the Soviet Union to becom