Runde 759

HF759 - Dear Samantha, I received your letter

Trådtittelen er et sitat fra et brev den sovjetiske generalsekretæren Yuri Andropov skrev til ti år gamle Samantha Smith i november 1982, som svar på et brev fra henne der hun ga uttrykk for sin frykt for atomkrig:

Dear Mr. Andropov,
My name is Samantha Smith. I am ten 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 to know why you want to conquer the world or at least our country. God made the world for us to live together in peace and not to fight.
Sincerely,
Samantha Smith

Dear Samantha,
I received your letter, which is like many others that have reached me recently from your country and from other countries around the world.
It seems to me – I can tell by your letter – that you are a courageous and honest girl, resembling Becky, the friend of Tom Sawyer in the famous book of your compatriot Mark Twain. This book is well known and loved in our country by all boys and girls.
You write that you are anxious about whether there will be a nuclear war between our two countries. And you ask are we doing anything so that war will not break out.
Your question is the most important of those that every thinking man can pose. I will reply to you seriously and honestly.
Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on Earth. This is what every Soviet man wants. This is what the great founder of our state, Vladimir Lenin, taught us. Soviet people well know what a terrible thing war is. Forty-two years ago, Nazi Germany, which strove for supremacy over the whole world, attacked our country, burned and destroyed many thousands of our towns and villages, killed millions of Soviet men, women and children.
In that war, which ended with our victory, we were in alliance with the United States: together we fought for the liberation of many people from the Nazi invaders. I hope that you know about this from your history lessons in school. And today we want very much to live in peace, to trade and cooperate with all our neighbors on this earth — with those far away and those near by. And certainly with such a great country as the United States of America. In America and in our country there are nuclear weapons — terrible weapons that can kill millions of people in an instant. But we do not want them to be ever used. That's precisely why the Soviet Union solemnly declared throughout the entire world that never — never — will it use nuclear weapons first against any country. In general we propose to discontinue further production of them and to proceed to the abolition of all the stockpiles on Earth.
It seems to me that this is a sufficient answer to your second question: 'Why do you want to wage war against the whole world or at least the United States?' We want nothing of the kind. No one in our country–neither workers, peasants, writers nor doctors, neither grown-ups nor children, nor members of the government–want either a big or 'little' war. We want peace — there is something that we are occupied with: growing wheat, building and inventing, writing books and flying into space. We want peace for ourselves and for all peoples of the planet. For our children and for you, Samantha.
I invite you, if your parents will let you, to come to our country, the best time being this summer. You will find out about our country, meet with your contemporaries, visit an international children's camp – Artek – on the sea. And see for yourself: in the Soviet Union, everyone is for peace and friendship among peoples.
Thank you for your letter. I wish you all the best in your young life.
Y. Andropov

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Startet av: ElvishPresley 19.11.16 22:21

Vunnet av: Artaxerxes, slutt 07.12.16 20:51

Sluttstilling:

10: Artaxerxes
9: ElvishPresley
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7: Boccherini
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3: 1769, rocket147
2: Jaauda
1: Ajay, malvolio, tr0ndern

Oppgaver:

Oppgave	Løsning	Oppgavegiver	Oppgaveløser
1	Samantha Smith	ElvishPresley	Ajay
2	Peter Stormare	Ajay	Artaxerxes
3	Marietta Holley	Artaxerxes	rocket147
4	Mark King (snookerspiller)	rocket147	Jaauda
5	Don Hutson	Jaauda	ElvishPresley
6	Kong David, Uria	ElvishPresley	Artaxerxes
7	Francis Pharcellus Church, Virginia O'Hanlon	Artaxerxes	ElvishPresley
8	Mathias Rust	ElvishPresley	rocket147
9	Steve Goodman	rocket147	Jaauda
10	Peder Åsmund Pedersen	Jaauda	Boccherini
11	Apostelen Paulus	Boccherini	ElvishPresley
12	Makar Karjakin, Breder Carlsen	ElvishPresley	Boccherini
13	Umberto Nobile	Boccherini	Artaxerxes
14	Mikhail Suslov	Artaxerxes	malvolio
15	Klement Gottwald	malvolio	ElvishPresley
16	Zinaida Brumberg, Valentina Brumberg	ElvishPresley	Boccherini
17	Quinault-Dufresne	Boccherini	1769
18	Eva König	1769	Artaxerxes
19	Boris Vian	Artaxerxes	ElvishPresley
20	Walter Winans, Alfréd Hajós	ElvishPresley	Artaxerxes
21	Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac	Artaxerxes	Boccherini
22	Ferdinand de Saussure	Boccherini	ElvishPresley
23	Jonathan Letterman	ElvishPresley	Boccherini
24	Robert Livingston the Elder	Boccherini	1769
25	Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell	1769	Boccherini
26	Gaucher V de Châtillon	Boccherini	Artaxerxes
27	Stephen Ward, Christine Keeler	Artaxerxes	rocket147
28	John King	rocket147	Artaxerxes
29	Emily Hobhouse	Artaxerxes	Boccherini
30	Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor	Boccherini	Artaxerxes
31	Igor Kio, Galina Bresjneva	Artaxerxes	ElvishPresley
32	Methodios, Kyrill av Saloniki	ElvishPresley	1769
33	Wilhelmine, Gräfin von Lichtenau, Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt	ElvishPresley	tr0ndern
34	Sarah York, Manuel Noriega	tr0ndern	ElvishPresley
35	Martin Ekenberg	ElvishPresley	Artaxerxes
36	Ed McCurdy	Artaxerxes	ElvishPresley
37	Amilcare Ponchielli, Allan Sherman	ElvishPresley	Artaxerxes

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