Hey Marta! I always found Samantha Smith to be an interesting and inspiring figure......perhaps maybe she could have a political career later in life?
Skeleton TL:
May 1987: Samantha Smith joins the Communist Party, USA, Maine District, and becomes a local reporter for the
People's Daily World, covering peace and disarmament issues. A Gorbachev True Believer, she is oblivious to he fact that he's destroying the Soviet Union.
April 1989: With the fall of Democratic Germany imminent, Samantha speaks out against the imminent danger to the socialist system. Due to her turnabout against Gorbachev, Gus Hall appoints her second in command and she moves to New York, becoming Editor-in-Chief of both the
People's Daily World (the reduction in frequency to weekly is butterflied away - in fact the
PDW becomes a
true daily - 7 days a week rather than just Tuesday through Saturday) and
Political Affairs magazine.
January 1992: With the restoration of capitalism in Russia, Samantha gets depressed and tries to kill herself, but fails. She is hspitalised and forced to take a break from Party work.
January 1996: Samantha is back at work within the CPUSA, one of Gus Hall's favourites, she is now second in command.
October 2000: Gus Hall dies at age 90. The National Committee of the Communist Party USA unanimously votes Samantha the new National Chairperson.
2004: Samantha Smith runs for President of the United States on the Communist ticket, beating Democratic ketchup baron John Kerry but losing to George W. Bush.
2008: Samantha Smith runs for President of the United States again.
20 January 2009: Samantha Smith is inaugurated as the first Communist President of the United States. Her first act as President is to have Sam Webb, Chairman of the Michigan District of the CPUSA, indicted on fraud charges stemming from his attempts to lead the Party astray from its duty to fight valiently for the restoration of the Soviet Union and the extirpation of capitalist Mafia thugs from Russian territory.