Who opened the 1980 Summer Olympic Games?

Question

Which small country won its only Olympic gold medals since it first participated in 1936, at the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, USA?

Answer 1

Leonid Brezhnev, Chairman of the USSR
The Games were held in Moscow, USSR. Andropov did not take the Chairmanship of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet in the USSR until the end of 1982.