On July 7, 1983, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith who in 1982 sent a letter to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov came to the USSR at

On July 7, 1983, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith who in 1982 sent a letter to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov came to the USSR at his invitation. In her address to the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Samantha Smith expressed her concern about the possibility of a nuclear war and, in her opinion, the desire of the USSR to seize the United States: “Hello, my name is Samantha Smith. I am 10 years old. I am very worried that a nuclear war will break out between Russia and the United States. Are you going to vote to start a war or not? God created the world for us to live together and take care of it, not conquer it. Please, let’s do as he wants and everyone will be happy.“ Samantha and her parents spent 2 weeks in the USSR that previously the American president Ronald Reagan called the “Empire of Evil“. Samantha visited Moscow, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Artek children’s camp, met the first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. Unfortunately 2 years later the ... Source: Lord Of War