I am a vegan and I find it very curious how some people are called terrorists or partisan fighters depending on which side they are on.
I just woke up it’s too early for this 😩✋
Lepa Radić was a partisan fighter.
She came from a poor Bosnian Serb family, and was born in 1925 in the village of Gašnica.
Shortly after Axis powers occupied the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in April 1941, her father, two paternal uncles and an aunt joined the Partisans.
In November 1941, Lepa and her brother, sister, mother, grandmother and some other family members were arrested by the Ustaše, but they were released after a couple of weeks of detention. After this, Lepa joined the Partisans.
During the [Battle of Neretva](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_White) she was helping coordinate a “zbeg” (a group of civilian refugees, sheltering in the open nature), when they were captured by the Germans on February 8th, 1943. It was mostly women and children in this group, and Lepa was the only one with a gun. Other women advised her to take off her uniform and throw away the rifle, but she refused and fired the last of her bullets. She was interrogated and severely beaten for 3 days, but refused to say anything, and on February 11th she was hanged.
With the noose around her neck, she cried out: “Long live the Communist Party, and partisans! Fight, people, for your freedom! Do not surrender to the evildoers! I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me!” In her last moments at the scaffold, the Germans offered to spare her life, in return for the names of the Communist Party leaders and members in the shelter, but she refused their offer with the words: “I am not a traitor of my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves when they have succeeded in wiping out all you evildoers, to the last man.”.
Many of her girl friends from her high school got killed in the war. Nevenka Lukić (1923-1943) was shot dead by the Ustaše in front of her father’s store. Sisters Desanka (1922-1944) and Mirjana (1923-1944) Bamburić were hanged by the Ustaše and Mirjana Raca (1921-1945) died in the nearby [Stara Gradiška](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stara_Gradi%C5%A1ka_concentration_camp) concentration camp.
And that is why the Germans couldn’t possibly win the war with bravery of that caliber..
Nisam znao da će ovakva slika da izazove tolko izdrkavanje nad politikom.
At the start: What a brave girl.
“Long live communism” happen.
At the end: Fuck off.
OP, story please! Without context of who this person is, its just a photo of a woman being hanged…
Im like 80% sure I’ve seen this and the woman was a badass in WWII or something but I can not remember her name or her story
In the 60s my parents were immigrants to Germany. Immigrants from various countries lived there. They all hung out with each other. There was a woman from Yugoslavia called Vita. She was a guerrilla* during the war. Her friends told her how she can be a virgin when she is with so many male rebels in the same area (she was a young girl in the war). Vita was telling them that: when you fight the Nazis, everyone is your brother. You don’t think about sex. Good heavens Vita. I respect you even if I never met you.
* I am not sure about the correct translation done by Google. Maybe it’s the right oneι partizan fighter.
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I am a vegan and I find it very curious how some people are called terrorists or partisan fighters depending on which side they are on.
I just woke up it’s too early for this 😩✋
Lepa Radić was a partisan fighter.
She came from a poor Bosnian Serb family, and was born in 1925 in the village of Gašnica.
Shortly after Axis powers occupied the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in April 1941, her father, two paternal uncles and an aunt joined the Partisans.
In November 1941, Lepa and her brother, sister, mother, grandmother and some other family members were arrested by the Ustaše, but they were released after a couple of weeks of detention. After this, Lepa joined the Partisans.
During the [Battle of Neretva](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_White) she was helping coordinate a “zbeg” (a group of civilian refugees, sheltering in the open nature), when they were captured by the Germans on February 8th, 1943. It was mostly women and children in this group, and Lepa was the only one with a gun. Other women advised her to take off her uniform and throw away the rifle, but she refused and fired the last of her bullets. She was interrogated and severely beaten for 3 days, but refused to say anything, and on February 11th she was hanged.
With the noose around her neck, she cried out: “Long live the Communist Party, and partisans! Fight, people, for your freedom! Do not surrender to the evildoers! I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me!” In her last moments at the scaffold, the Germans offered to spare her life, in return for the names of the Communist Party leaders and members in the shelter, but she refused their offer with the words: “I am not a traitor of my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves when they have succeeded in wiping out all you evildoers, to the last man.”.
She was 17 years old.
She was posthumously made [“People’s Hero of Yugoslavia”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_People%27s_Hero) in 1951.
Many of her girl friends from her high school got killed in the war. Nevenka Lukić (1923-1943) was shot dead by the Ustaše in front of her father’s store. Sisters Desanka (1922-1944) and Mirjana (1923-1944) Bamburić were hanged by the Ustaše and Mirjana Raca (1921-1945) died in the nearby [Stara Gradiška](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stara_Gradi%C5%A1ka_concentration_camp) concentration camp.
And that is why the Germans couldn’t possibly win the war with bravery of that caliber..
Nisam znao da će ovakva slika da izazove tolko izdrkavanje nad politikom.
At the start: What a brave girl.
“Long live communism” happen.
At the end: Fuck off.
OP, story please! Without context of who this person is, its just a photo of a woman being hanged…
Im like 80% sure I’ve seen this and the woman was a badass in WWII or something but I can not remember her name or her story
In the 60s my parents were immigrants to Germany. Immigrants from various countries lived there. They all hung out with each other. There was a woman from Yugoslavia called Vita. She was a guerrilla* during the war. Her friends told her how she can be a virgin when she is with so many male rebels in the same area (she was a young girl in the war). Vita was telling them that: when you fight the Nazis, everyone is your brother. You don’t think about sex. Good heavens Vita. I respect you even if I never met you.
* I am not sure about the correct translation done by Google. Maybe it’s the right oneι partizan fighter.
Smrt fašizmu!
By the nazis.