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I learned about Samantha Smith for the first time yesterday...
Posted on 1/26/26 at 5:37 am
Posted on 1/26/26 at 5:37 am
What an uplifting and heartwarming story, though it's a shame her life was cut short so tragically.
For those of you who don't know or who are too young to remember, Samantha Smith was a 10-year-old American girl from the state of Maine who sent a letter to Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov when he came to power in 1982:
Incredibly, Andropov responded personally to Smith's letter and invited her and her family to the Soviet Union. After talking with the U.S. government, they accepted and were treated to a two-week-long whirlwind tour of Russia and its satellite states. The trip made her an international celebrity, and she was a big hit with the people of the Soviet Union. She returned to the United States and was given a ticker tape parade.
Sadly, her life was cut short as she and her father were killed in a plane crash two years later.
CBS News did a story on her some years back:
For those of you who don't know or who are too young to remember, Samantha Smith was a 10-year-old American girl from the state of Maine who sent a letter to Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov when he came to power in 1982:
quote:
Dear Mr. Andropov,
My name is Samantha Smith. I am 10 years old. Congratulations on your new job. I have been worrying about Russia and the United States getting into a nuclear war. Are you going to vote to have a war or not? If you aren't please tell me how you are going to help to not have a war. This question you do not have to answer, but I would like it if you would. Why do you want to conquer the world or at least our country? God made the world for us to share and take care of. Not to fight over or have one group of people own it all. Please lets do what he wanted and have everybody be happy too.
Samantha Smith
Incredibly, Andropov responded personally to Smith's letter and invited her and her family to the Soviet Union. After talking with the U.S. government, they accepted and were treated to a two-week-long whirlwind tour of Russia and its satellite states. The trip made her an international celebrity, and she was a big hit with the people of the Soviet Union. She returned to the United States and was given a ticker tape parade.
Sadly, her life was cut short as she and her father were killed in a plane crash two years later.
CBS News did a story on her some years back:
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Posted on 1/26/26 at 5:42 am to RollTide1987
That’s a nice story. We need more of this on the OT.
Well, except for this part…
Well, except for this part…
quote:
Sadly, her life was cut short as she and her father were killed in a plane crash two years later.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 5:47 am to RollTide1987
That is a neat story. I sort of remember it from back in the day.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 6:16 am to RollTide1987
The pilot of the plane was Russian
Posted on 1/26/26 at 6:18 am to RollTide1987
quote:
Sadly, her life was cut short as she and her father were killed in a plane crash two years later.
Allegedly
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:29 am to RollTide1987
quote:God could write it on the wall and very few of you would comprehend the obvious truth.
RollTide1987
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:34 am to RollTide1987
quote:I once had a driver who could have been related to him:
Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov
Pickov Andropov.
This post was edited on 1/26/26 at 7:35 am
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:43 am to soccerfüt
quote:
I once had a driver who could have been related to him:
Pickov Andropov.
that was goodPosted on 1/26/26 at 7:51 am to RollTide1987
I remember that so well. I was about the same age as her, and I was so sad when they announced she died.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:55 am to RollTide1987
Probably a CIA operation to ascertain the mentality Andropov. The story of her death was a cover. Her and her family were given new identities and moved to a remote small town somewhere like Alaska.
This post was edited on 1/26/26 at 7:56 am
Posted on 1/26/26 at 8:26 am to RollTide1987
I don't recall this at all.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 8:31 am to soccerfüt
quote:Hahaha! I remember that from the click and clack radio show from years back.
Pickov Andropov.
And their lawyers: Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe….
Sad stuff about the little girl. Almost want to go back and resurrect every mysterious death now that we know how nefarious the deep state has been all these years.
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