Word: zoya
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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...
...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...
Last week Moscow told this story and gave Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya* a title: Hero of the Soviet Union...
...Comrades!"cried Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. "Cheer up! Smite the Germans! Burn them...