Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

✶September 13, 1923

†November 29, 1941

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About their life

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.

Soviet resistance member of World War II and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1923–1941)

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