Maria "Masha" Bruskina, a nurse with the Russian resistance, before her execution by hanging. The placard reads: "We are the partisans who shot German troops", Minsk, 26 October 1941. She was 17. - History Education Network

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Maria “Masha” Bruskina, a nurse with the Russian resistance, before her execution by hanging. The placard reads: “We are the partisans who shot German troops”, Minsk, 26 October 1941. She was 17.

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