Crimea’s Famed Artek Camp Turns 100, Tainted By Links To Russia Invasion

Samantha Smith (center right, holding bag) surrounded by young pioneers in Artek in the summer of 1983.

In 1982, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith wrote a letter to Soviet leader Yury Andropov urging him to avoid nuclear war. The letter was published in Pravda, the Soviet Union’s propaganda…