Samantha Smith

✶June 29, 1972

†August 25, 1985

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Samantha Reed Smith was an American peace activist and child actress who became famous for her anti-war outreaches during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1982, Smith wrote a letter to the newly appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov, and received a personal reply with an invitation to visit the Soviet Union, which she accepted.

American peace activist and child actress (1972–1985)

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