Samantha Reed Smith was an American peace activist and child actress from Manchester, Maine, who became famous for her anti-war outreaches during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1982, Smith wrote a letter to the newly appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov, and received a personal reply with an invitation to visit the Soviet Union, which she accepted.
Smith visiting the Artek pioneer camp in 1983
Samantha Smith (center) visiting the USSR upon the invitation of General Secretary of the Central Committee of CPSU Yuri Andropov in all-Union Artek pioneer camp
Samantha Smith Alley in Artek Camp "Morskoy"
Boat "Саманта Смит" ("Samant[h]a Smit[h]" in Russian), built in 1986 and named in honor of Smith in Yalta Sea Port
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was a Soviet politician who was the sixth leader of the Soviet Union and the fourth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, taking office in 1982 and serving until his death in 1984.
Andropov in 1980
Andropov, Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev, 1967
Andropov in 1974 as KGB Chairman
General Wojciech Jaruzelski meeting Andropov during the 1982 crisis
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