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Description
Samantha Smith of Manchester (second from left), on a two-week trip to the Soviet Union to promote peace, visited a collective farm near the Black Sea town where she met members of a Pioneer Youth camp.
She wrote, "The directors of the farm did experiments on fruit, and they had a table set up out in the middle of an orchard with bowls of absolutely giant fruit."
Smith (1972-1985) had written to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov asking him if he planned to start a war and urged peace. He invited her and her parents, Arthur and Jane Smith, to visit the Soviet Union.
About This Item
- Title: Samantha Smith at collective farm, 1983
- Creator: Arthur Smith
- Creation Date: 1983
- Subject Date: 1983
- Location: Ukraine
- Media: Photographic print
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich, 1914-1984--Correspondence
- Artek Pioneer Camp (Ukraine)
- Camps--Ukraine
- Children and peace
- Cold War
- Collective farms--Ukraine
- Eating & drinking
- Farms--Ukraine
- International relations
- Letters
- Peace
- Political activity
- Smith, Samantha, 1972-1985--Correspondence
- Smith, Samantha, 1972-1985--Travel
People
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