“You hang me now, but I'm not alone. There are two hundred million of us. You can't hang us all. They will avenge me.”

—  Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

Quoted in №34. "Очерк Петра Александровича Лидова "Таня" http://zoyakosmodemyanskaya.ru/books5-34.htm

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