Word: zoya
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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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...
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...
...young woman around whom the drama and action centers is Comrade Commander Natasha, played by the lovely Russian film actress Zoya Fyodorva. Her rough, heavy clothing and high boots fail to hide her lovely charm, which fairly oozes out, if given half a chance. Besides her hospital duties, which are very arduous, she has to manage a group of young nurses who are full of life and still half scared to death...
...U.S.S.R. troops advancing under fire to blow up an enemy pill-box with dynamite. The film has an unusual ending which smells like Hollywood and would spoil the plot if recorded here. The picture was produced in Russia; the dialogue is in Russian with English titles. Incidently the star, Zoya Fyodorva, bears a remarkable resemblance to Sonia Henie. (Hollywood please note.) E. V. F. (linotypist for the Crimson...