Americas Youngest Ambassador: The Cold War Story of Samantha Smiths Lasting Message of Peace Nelson Lena
Americas Youngest Ambassador: The Cold War Story of Samantha Smiths Lasting Message of Peace Nelson Lena In 1982, amid the nuclear paranoia that engulfed the US and the Soviet Union, Samantha Smith,…
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Americas Youngest Ambassador: The Cold War Story of Samantha Smiths Lasting Message of Peace Nelson Lena
In 1982, amid the nuclear paranoia that engulfed the US and the Soviet Union, Samantha Smith, a fifth grader from Manchester, Maine, wrote a letter to the Kremlin asking the Soviet leader if he was going to start a war. Today, a nuclear war seems like a possibility once again. When Pravda, the biggest Soviet newspaper, published her letter--and Samantha received an unprecedented invitation to visit the Soviet Union --her family embarked on a historic journey that helped transform the hearts and minds of two nations on a collision course.
America's The story of a young American girl's letter to the Soviet leader and her innocent curiosity about the other side of the Iron Curtain holds an important lesson for every American: to never stop questioning the status quo, and to recognize that the responsibility for the preservation of peace is not only the purveyance of the government.