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    July 7, 1983: Samantha Smith's Historic Invitation to the Soviet Union by Yuri Andropov

    On July 7, 1983, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith received an invitation to visit the Soviet Union from Secretary General Yuri Andropov. Smith, a 10-year-old from Manchester, Maine, had written a heartfelt letter to Andropov expressing her fears about nuclear war and her desire for peace...
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