At that time, Time magazine published informational materials on pressure from the new Soviet leader as well as his portrait on the cover.Ĭurious Samantha looked through the issue and asked whether the USSR Secretary General really wanted to use nuclear weapons to destroy the world. The same thing happened in the early 1980s when relations between the USSR and the United States of America were very tense due to the war in Afghanistan and the deployment of Pershing 2 Missiles in Europe. At the age of 5, the girl mastered grammar and wrote a letter to Queen Elizabeth II to express her admiration to the queen.Ī post shared by Саманта Смит on at 9:38pm PDT Samantha Smith with her parents She was the only child of Arthur and Jane Smith. ChildhoodĪmerican girl Samantha Reed Smith was born on June 29, 1972, in the small town of Houlton, on the Canada–United States border. In 2016, the feature film Samantha Smith’s Truth directed by Russian filmmaker Andrey Sobolev was based on the story of the American girl, starring Daniil Strakhov, Alina Babak and Inna Gomes. The girl’s trip around the cities of the Soviet Union attracted wide media attention and marked the beginning of her work as the youngest peacemaker and goodwill ambassador who sought to answers the questions about security and relations between the leading world powers.

She became well-known due to the famous letter written during the Cold War to CPSU General Secretary Yuri Andropov. The name of the American schoolgirl Samantha Smith was familiar to every citizen in the USSR and the USA in the 1980s.

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