“Samantha Smith, the 13-year-old ‘ambassador’ to the Soviet Union, died [in 1985] in a plane crash. Smith was best known for writing to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov in 1982 and visiting the Soviet Union as Andropov’s guest in 1983.” Read more here.
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