Lepa Radić Quotes

Lepa Radić Quotes

Lepa Svetozara Radić was a Yugoslav Partisan and communist of Serbian origin who was awarded the Order of the People's Hero in 1951 for her role in the resistance movement against the Axis powers in the Second World War—becoming the youngest recipient at the time. She was executed at the age of 17 for shooting at German troops. As her captors tied the noose around her neck, they offered her a reprieve from the gallows if she would reveal her comrades' and leaders' identities. She responded that she was not a traitor and that her comrades would reveal themselves when they avenged her death.

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✵ 19. December 1925 – 8. February 1943

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“I am not a traitor of my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves when they have succeeded in wiping out all you evildoers, to the last man.”

Lepa Radić

In her last moments at the scaffold, the Germans offered to spare her life, in return for the names of the Communist Party leaders and members in the shelter. Quoted in Women of Yugoslavia in the National Liberation War https://books.google.com/books?id=z4MNAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Lepa+Radic,+whom+they+condemned+to+death+by+hanging%22&dq=%22Lepa+Radic,+whom+they+condemned+to+death+by+hanging

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