Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was a young courageous woman of the Soviet Union during the World War II. The Nazis attacked her country when she was 18.
German troops came severely near to Moscow towards the end of 1941. Zoya got recruited into an underground organization known as partisans. It was their work to damage the Germans back of the lines and they did this by burning where the soldiers slept or had their supply. This was much needed work at that time of the year as winter was approaching.
On November 27, 1941, Germans soldiers arrested Zoya when she was attempting to set ablaze a building in a village. They kept torturing her during two days. They also used to beat her and get her to walk around without shoes in the cold. Zoya remained a strong woman. She did not give them some useful information and even provided them with an alias, Tanya.
Then the Germans hanged her on November 29, 1941 to intimidate the villagers. They made a sign to hang on her which says, Houseburner. Zoya also tried to motivate people by shouting that people should continuing fighting even though she knew that she was about to die and she informed the Germans that they were going to lose.
Her body was left suspended over weeks. Later on, her courageousness was learnt by a great number of people. Zoya became a hero during the Soviet Union. In 1942, she was awarded with the highest honor of the Soviet Union which was the hero of the Soviet Union and this was awarded to her as the first woman of the war to be awarded.
In a very dark time, we can see great courage in her story.
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