Heroes of the Great Patriotic War There were
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Heroes of the Great Patriotic War There were a lot of heroes (about 12000 become the titles the Hero of SU), a great number of brave actions. They fought for their mothers, wives, children. They fought for their future, for our future.
Alexander Matveyevich Matrosov (1924 -1943) 19 years The hero of the Soviet Union, the ordinary infantry. Has committed a selfless deed, covering his chest embrasure of a German pillbox.
Nikolay Frantsevich Gastello (1907 -1941) 34 years The enemy shell damaged the fuel tank, and Gastello made a fiery battering RAM, sent a burning car on a mechanized column of the enemy.
Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya (1923 -1941) 18 years Was captured when tried to burn the Nazi’s place of location. During the interrogation, she did not say anything. Was brutally tortured and hanged by the Nazis.
Aleksandr Anatolyevich Kosmodemyansky (1925 -1945) 19 years Went to the front after the execution of his sister Zoe. At the front sought tried to find executioners of his sister. Died in 1945 during the storming of the village Verbruderung West now the present Kaliningrad.
The feat of 28 Panfilovtsev This division was suspended for 4 hour promotion of 50 enemy tanks in the fierce fighting, destroying 18 of them that went down in history as the Feat of 28 heroes Panfilovtsev.
