Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Soviet resistance member of World War II and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1923–1941)
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (September 13, 1923 – November 29, 1941) was a Soviet partisan, executed after acts of sabotage against the invading armies of Nazi Germany; She became one of the most revered heroines of the Soviet Union.
Quotes
edit- Hey, comrades! Why are you looking so sad? Be brave, fight, beat the Germans, burn, wipe them out! I'm not afraid to die, comrades. It is happiness to die for one's people!
- 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.
- Farewell, comrades! Fight, do not be afraid! Stalin is with us! Stalin will come!