In 2015, the year the whole of humanity will celebrate the end of one of the most terrible wars in history.Especially a lot of suffering in the early 1940s fell to the Soviet people, and that the inhabitants of the Soviet Union showed to the world the unprecedented examples of heroism, tenacity and love for the motherland.For example, to this day not forgotten feat Zoe Kosmodemyanskoy, a summary of the history of which is presented below.
Background
November 17, 1941, the year when the Nazis were on the outskirts of Moscow, it was decided to use the Scythian tactics against the invaders.In this regard, an order was issued instructing destroy all the settlements in the rear of the enemy, in order to deprive him of the possibility to spend the winter in comfort.To execute the order of the number of guerrilla fighters of the special part of 9903 as soon as possible formed several subversive groups.This military unit specifically created in late October 1941, consisted mainly of the Komsomol volunteers who have passed a rigorous selection.In particular, each of the young men was interviewed, and they were warned that they would have to perform tasks associated with a fatal risk.
Family
Before describing what was Kosmodemyanskaya Zoya A., a feat which made her a symbol of heroism of the Soviet people, should learn some interesting facts about her parents and other ancestors.So, the first woman to receive the title of Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II, was born in a family of teachers.However, for a long time hiding the fact that the ancestors of the girl's paternal were priests.Interestingly, in 1918, the year of her grandfather, who was a priest in the village church Osino Guy, where he was born Zoe brutally tortured and drowned in the pond by the Bolsheviks.For a time the family Kosmodemyanskiy held in Siberia, as her parents were afraid of arrest, but soon returned and settled in the capital.Three years later his father died Zoe, and he and his brother were in the care of his mother.
biography
Zoe Kosmodemyanskaya, the whole truth and falsehood about the feat which was made public recently, was born in 1923.After returning from Siberia, she studied at school N 201 in Moscow and especially fond of humanities.Dream Girls was to enter the Literary Institute, but she was prepared for a completely different destiny.In 1940 Zoe suffered a severe form of meningitis and underwent a course of rehabilitation in a specialized sanatorium in Sokolniki, where she met with Arkady Gaidar.
When in 1941 he was declared a set of volunteers to complete part of the guerrilla 9903, Kosmodemyanskaya one of the first went for an interview and passed it successfully.After that, she and about 2,000 other Komsomol members were sent to special courses and then transferred to the Volokolamsk district.
feat Zoe Kosmodemyanskoy: summary
November 18 commanders of the two subversive groups HF 9903 number Provorov P. and B. Kraynov received the order to destroy during the week of 10 settlements located in the rear of the enemy.As part of the first of them on the job and went to Red Army Zoe Kosmodemyanskaya.Groups were shot by the Germans near the village Golovkova, and because of the heavy losses they had united under the command of Kra.Thus, a feat Zoe Kosmodemyanskoy took place in late autumn 1941.More precisely, on its last mission to the village Petrishcheva she went on the night of November 27 with the group commander and fighter Vasily Klubkova.They set fire to three houses with stables, destroying 20 horses occupiers.In addition, witnesses later told more about a feat Zoe Kosmodemyanskoy.It turns out that the girl was able to disable the communications center, making it impossible the interaction of some German units occupying positions of Moscow.
Capture
investigation of events in Petrishcheva in late November 1941, it showed that extreme not wait Zoe Kosmodemyanskoy and Basil Klubkova and returned to his.The very same woman, finding mates at the appointed place, decided on their own to continue the execution of the order and went back to the village in the evening on November 28.This time it was not possible to carry out arson as it was captured by a peasant S. Sviridov and put them to the Germans.The Germans, enraged constant sabotage began torturing girl trying to find her, how many guerrillas operating in the area Petrishcheva.Investigators and historians who study the subject that was immortal feat Zoe Kosmodemyanskoy, also found that it took part in the beating of two local residents, she set fire to the house the day before she was captured.
execution
morning of November 29 1941 Kosmodem'yanskii led to the place where was built the gallows.Not her neck hung a plaque with an inscription in German and Russian, which said that the girl is podzhigatelnitsey houses.On the way to Zoe attacked one of the peasants left without a home for its wine, and hit her with a stick on his feet.Then, a few German soldiers began to photograph her.Subsequently, the peasants, which drove them to see diversantki penalty, told investigators still about a feat Zoe Kosmodemyanskoy.Summary of evidence is this: before she threw the noose around his neck, a fearless patriot said a short speech in which he called to fight against the Nazis, and finished her words about the invincibility of the Soviet Union.The girl's body was on the gallows a month and was buried by local residents only on the eve of the New Year.
Recognition feat
As already mentioned, immediately after Petrishcheva been released, arrived to a special commission.The purpose of her visit was to identify the body, and the questioning of those who have seen firsthand the feat Zoe Kosmodemyanskoy.Briefly all the readings were recorded on paper and sent to Moscow for further investigation.After studying these and other material girl by Stalin himself was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.Order published all newspapers published in the Soviet Union, and found out about it the whole country.
"Zoe Kosmodemyanskaya" M. Gorin.New details about the heroism
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the media, a host of "sensationalist" articles that blackened everything.Do not have passed this cup, and Zoya Kosmodem'yanskii.As the well-known researcher of Russian and Soviet history M. Gorin, one of the reasons for this was silence, and the falsification of some of the background of bold girl in Soviet times for ideological reasons.In particular, as to be captured for the Red Army, including for Zoe, it was considered a disgrace, was set in motion version that gave her partner - Vasily coil.During the first interrogation of the young man about anything that is not reported.But then suddenly he decided to confess and told me that the Germans have her whereabouts in exchange for life.This is just one example of the manipulation of facts in order not to tarnish the image of the heroine-martyr, although the feat Zoe does not need such a correction.
Thus, when cases of falsification and concealment of the truth became known to the general public, some pseudo-journalists in the pursuit of cheap sensation began to represent them in a distorted form.In particular, to belittle the feat Zoe Kosmodemyanskoy, a summary of the history of which is presented above, become emphasizes the fact that she was undergoing treatment in a sanatorium, which specializes in the treatment of nervous diseases.And, as in the children's game "broken telephone", from publishing to publish the diagnosis changed.Thus, in the first "revelatory" articles written that she was unbalanced, then follow it already became known almost schizophrenic, who before the war have repeatedly set fire to haystacks.
Now you know what was the feat Zoe Kosmodemyanskoy briefly and without emotion which is difficult to tell.After all, no one can remain indifferent to the fate of 18-year-old girl, died a martyr for the liberation of their homeland.
