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Hero of the Soviet Union. Order of Lenin. Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya [1] (Russian: Зо́я Анато́льевна Космодемья́нская, IPA: [ˈzojə kəsmədʲɪˈmʲjanskəjə]; September 13, 1923 – November 29, 1941) was a Soviet partisan. [2]
Dec 25, 2023 · Published December 25, 2023. In 1941, 18-year-old Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was executed by German troops after she gave her fellow resistance fighters one final rallying cry: "I’m not afraid to die, comrades. It is happiness to die for one’s people!”. Unknown, 1943 The alleged execution of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya in Petrischevo.
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Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya became the first female recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union gold star medal for her actions in World War II. Mountains and stars were named in her honor, while poems...
Kosmodemyanskaya, Zoya (1923–1941)Soviet partisan who, after her capture and execution by German troops, became a symbol of heroism in the Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany. Name variations: Tanya; Kosmodemjamskaja; Kosmodemianskia. Pronunciation: Kos-MO-dem-YAHN-sky-ah.
KOSMODEMYANSKAYA, ZOYA. (1923 – 1941), partisan girl known as "Tanya" in World War II and canonized as Russian war heroine; also known as the Soviet Joan of Arc, she was posthumously awarded the honorary title Hero of the Soviet Union. At the outbreak of war in June 1941, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, member of the Moscow Komsomol ( Communist Youth ...
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya stretched on tiptoe to shout: “Goodby, Comrades!” The hangman kicked the box and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya strangled to death. Last week Moscow told this story and gave...
Feb 16, 2021 · Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923-1941), was one of the most revered martyrs of the Soviet Union. As the story goes, in October 1941, the 18-year-old Kosmodemyanskaya, a girl from a priest’s family, joined the Soviet partisan movement to fight the Nazis, who were successfully advancing across the Soviet territory at the time.
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