Samantha Smith in Moscow, 1983

Moscow, USSR. American schoolgirl and peace activist Samantha Smith with her caricature, given her as a gift from Bolshoi Circus artists. In 1982, Smith wrote a letter to the leader of the USSR, Yuri Andropov, calling for peace and received a personal invitation to visit the Soviet Union. Alexander Yakovlev and Vladimir Yatsina/TASS

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