Letter from Andropov
Jun 10, 2022
2 minutes
he girl featured is Samantha Smith from the US state of Maine. She was ten years old in 1982, when relations between the Soviet bloc and the West were deteriorating at a terrifying speed. She decided to do something about this, and wrote to the newly elected General Secretary of the Communist Party (i.e. the Soviet Union’s
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