1941. The execution of Zoe Cosmodemyanskaya

75 years ago, on November 29, 1941, in the village of Petrishchevo near Moscow, the 18-year-old Soviet partisan Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was hanged. Fulfilling the Stalinist order on the “scorched land”, she set fire to two huts and was captured by local residents when trying to set fire to the barn (according to another version, issued by the traitor, was captured by the Germans at the meeting place with other members of the sabotage group).

Before the execution, Zoya turned to the audience in the square: “Hey comrades! What are you more likely? Be bold, fight, beat the Germans, burn, poison! I am not afraid of dying, comrades. This is happiness - to die for my people ... Farewell, comrades! Fight, don’t be afraid! Stalin will come with us! Stalin come!” And she said to the German soldiers: "You will hang me now, but I am not alone, we are two hundred million, do not outweigh all. They will take revenge on me for me."

On February 16, 1942, Zoe Kosmodemyanskaya was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.