Yelena Mazanik: Belarusian Maid Who Blew Up a Nazi Governor
Flames of Freedom: Heroines Against Fascism
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She served tea to monsters — then destroyed one. In 1943, Yelena Mazanik, a maid in Nazi-occupied Minsk, turned her courage into a weapon. Smuggling a bomb into Wilhelm Kube’s bedroom, she ended the life of the man responsible for mass murder across Belarus. Her act of vengeance echoed through the forests of the partisans and gave hope to an occupied nation.
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