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Old 15-03-2008, 07:19 PM   #5 (permalink)
Zoya
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Location: Cheshire, England
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Zoya will become famous soon enough
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Originally Posted by von Poop View Post
Quite a coincidence, as I was just printing out some pictures of her last night.
I'd thought the body was taken away the same night after the soldiers mutilated it?
A brave act by those that did it, whenever it happened.
I found this here Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

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Zoya was hanged before the villagers that had been forced to witness the spectacle. Her corpse was bayoneted by the Nazis as it hung from the billet. The Germans would not allow the villagers to remove her body for some time after the execution. Instead, they displayed her body as a warning to others who might have considered aiding the partisans. She was buried months later following the beginning of the Soviet counter-offensive.
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The Motherland, bent over her daughter's ashes,
Sings this tender maternal song
About Zoya, the girl, who has become a legend,
Who died and was born for eternal life.
Dimitri Shostakovich
Song for Zoya (1944)

The War in the East
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