If you do not take into account the Moscow Olympics, the most successful games for the USSR can be attributed to the Summer Olympics, held in Rome in 1960. Soviet athletes took part in it for only the third time during the revival of the Olympic movement.
At this sports forum 134 sets of medals were played. In unofficial superiority representatives of the USSR defeated even recognized favorites — the team of the USA. Soviet athletes managed to win 103 medals, of which 43 were gold, 29 were silver, 31 were bronze. If you recalculate this figure as a percentage, it is 32% of total medals. USSR athletes performed in all kinds of program except field hockey and football.
The next winning Olympics for Soviet athletes was the Summer Games, held in 1972 in Munich. The first line of unofficial team superiority again took the USSR. Out of 193 sets of Olympic medals, the Soviet team won 50 gold, 27 silver and 22 bronze awards. Success is rated as 26%. These were games that gathered a record number of participants — 121 countries sent representatives to Munich. Each of the 29 disciplines of the games program updated previous records, many of which became not only Olympic but world.