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Yefrosinya Zenkova: 18-Year-Old Partisan Leader Who Sabotaged the Nazis in Belarus
Yefrosinya Zenkova was only 18 when she became one of the youngest Soviet partisan leaders resisting Nazi occupation in Belarus. As leader of the “Young Avengers,” she helped organize more than 20 sabotage operations against German forces during the Second World War.
Born in 1923 into a peasant family in Ushaly, Zenkova joined the underground struggle after witnessing the German invasion of the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa. Operating near Obol, she founded and led a Komsomol resistance group whose members derailed trains, destroyed infrastructure, gathered intelligence, and…
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