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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: America's Child Ambassador
Description: Samantha Smith, an 11 year-old from Maine, New England, left for the USSR on 7th July, 1983, as the personal guest of Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov.
Her adventure began with a letter she wrote him, bluntly asking if he intended to start a war or conquer the United States. After the letter was published in Pravda, Andropov invited her to visit Russia, attending the Bolshoi Ballet, touring Lenin's Tomb, and staying at the Artek summer camp in Crimea.
In this episode Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain how Smith’s journey to the land described as...