ZOYA KOSMODEMYANSKAYA’ aka TANYA ;
“The comrades! Why are you so depressed ? Be brave, fight, crush fascists, burn, destroy! I ain’t afraid to die Comrades! Happy to die for my people! ”
Zoya, the child of a librarian and a teacher, was a Hero of the Soviet Union. He joined the defense of the nation against Nazis when he was still a high school student. He volunteered for a partisan unit in October 1941, while still a high school student in Moscow. “What can we do when the enemy is so close to his mother who tried to discourage him? It is impossible to move on with my life if they come here. He replied with the “
In the village of Petrischevo near Moscow, Zoya managed to set horse stables and houses on fire to sabotage the invading Nazi forces. However, a Nazi collaborator noticed him and reported it to the German troops. The Germans captured Zoya after this incident. After his arrest, Kosmodemyanskaya was robbed, beaten, questioned and tortured with 200 lashes and burned his body but refused to give any information. The next morning, he was walked towards the center of the village with a plaque written around his neck in Russian and German “Swordsman of the houses” and was hung.
YOU CAN’T HANG ALL OF US 200 MILLION PEOPLE!
Before Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was executed by hanging, “Comrades! Why are you so gloomy ? I’m not afraid to die! I am happy to die for my people! “and to the Germans, “”You are hanging me now, but I am not alone.” We are two hundred million people. You can’t hang all of us. It has been claimed to be his last words in the form of “. The Germans left Zoya’s body hanging in her comb for several weeks. Finally buried just before the Soviets took over the lands in January 1942.
EXTRACT FROM THE POEM NAZIM HIKMET WROTE FOR TANYA;
“the voice that stands tall in the face of the enemy,
No, who says,
I can’t say, to say and not tell the enemy anything true
who even hides his own name.
Her name was ZOE, my name is TANYA, she told them.
Tanya,
Your picture in front of me in Bursa Prison.
In Bursa Prison.
Maybe you haven’t heard the name of Bursa.
Bursa is a green and soft homeland.
Your picture in front of me in Bursa Prison.
It’s not 1941, it’s 1945.
No longer at Moscow’s gates.
Yours truly are fighting at the gates of Berlin,
our people,
all honorable people of the world.
Tanya,
as much as you love your hometown
I too love my country. ”
Nazim went to Moscow in 1951 after writing this poem. Landing at the airport by plane. He is met with great care, writer and poet friends welcome him. Lots of roses are given to Nazim. On the other hand a woman approaches and she extends a rose, saying; “I am Zoya’s mother, my daughter is the heroine of the Zoya poem you wrote in prison!”
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