Word: kosmodemyanskaya
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...pharmacist can tell you that heroine of the Soviet Union, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (TIME, March 2), has a venerable name. Saints Cosmas and Damien are the patron saints of the pharmaceutical [and medical] world. . . . Fact and fancy credit them with many medical miracles. They were victims of the Diocletian persecutions in the 4th Century, and their tomb in Cyrus, Syria, has been venerated as a shrine for centuries...
...Kosmodemyanskaya is one of the many faded footprints of Christianity in Godless Russia...
...officer snapped another picture. The hangman tightened the noose. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya stretched on tiptoe to shout: "Goodby, Comrades!" The hangman kicked the box and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya strangled to death...
Last week Moscow told this story and gave Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya* a title: Hero of the Soviet Union...
...Skeptical correspondents were informed that Kosmo and Demyan were both proper first names, which had been combined to make an all-inclusive family name with the feminine ending kaya. Hence, said Moscow, any similarity in pronunciation between Kosmodemyanskaya and "Damyankee" was purely coincidental...