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07-23-2009, 12:05 PM
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Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Soviet Partisan Hanged at Petrishchevo, 1941
On the evening of November 28, 1941, Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya, an 18 year old Komsomol volunteer assigned to a Soviet sabotage unit, was captured after burning buildings used to house German troops in Petrishchevo, near Moscow. During interrogation and torture that night, she identified herself only as Tanya, the name used in the first Pravda report. The following morning, November 29, 1941, she was hanged publicly before villagers forced to attend. Her body remained on the gallows for about a month and was mutilated by passing soldiers, who used knives to cut it and severed a breast, until the Germans permitted burial. She was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously on February 16, 1942, becoming the first woman to receive the honor during the war. Photographs of the execution were recovered from the body of a dead German soldier, while the well-known image of her frozen body was taken by a Soviet photographer and published in Pravda in January 1942.  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  · |
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07-23-2009, 03:35 PM
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Re: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Soviet Partisan Hanged at Petrishchevo, 1941
 Damn!Nice pics of another classic topic!  |
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09-02-2009, 12:17 AM
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Re: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Soviet Partisan Hanged at Petrishchevo, 1941
She was so beautiful... I am looking her up on wiki now
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