Historama, November 29

A young partisan’s tragic end and difficulties in Russian spelling are in the spotlight of tonight’s Historama. ­Nazis torture young Soviet partisan to death On this day in 1941, an 18-year-old partisan girl named Zoya Kosmodemyanskya was tortured and hung by the Nazis. Read more about Zoya on Russiapedia The invaders came within 60 kilometers […]