On This Day: July 7, 1983 – Samantha Smith Was Invited to the Soviet Union by Yuri Andropov

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On This Day: July 7, 1983 – Samantha Smith Was Invited to the Soviet Union by Yuri Andropov.

On this day July 7, 1983, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith was formally invited to visit the Soviet Union by Secretary General Yuri Andropov. The invitation came in response to a heartfelt letter she had written expressing her fears of nuclear war and asking why the United States and the Soviet Union could not be friends. At just ten years old, Samantha’s message struck a powerful chord during a time of intense Cold War tension.

Her visit the following year was widely publicized around...

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