Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya was a Soviet partisan. She was executed after acts of sabotage against the invading armies of Nazi Germany; after stories emerged of her defiance towards her captors, she was posthumously declared a Hero of the Soviet Union. She became one of the most revered heroines of the Soviet Union.
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Quoted in №34. "Очерк Петра Александровича Лидова "Таня" http://zoyakosmodemyanskaya.ru/books5-34.htm
