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...hang me now," Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya taunted her captors, "but I am not alone. There are 200,000,000 of us. You won't hang everybody. I shall be avenged. Soldiers! Surrender before it is too late. Victory will be ours...
...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...
Finally they hung a bottle of gasoline and a card inscribed "Guerrilla" about her neck, hustled her off to a gallows in the village square of Petrisheva. Villagers were herded to watch the execution. The Germans stood Zoya on a box, dropped a noose around her neck. A German officer focused his camera...
...Comrades!"cried Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. "Cheer up! Smite the Germans! Burn them...
When Adolf Hitler marched into Soviet Russia, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya quit the tenth grade of Moscow's 202nd Secondary School and joined a guerrilla band. Hair-cropped, in men's clothes, tall, 18-year-old Zoya proved an apt recruit: before the Germans captured her, she had cut a German field-telephone wire, fired German troop quarters, destroyed a 20-horse enemy stable...