And now a Russian partisan! Here is Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (try saying that 5 times quickly!). Zoya was a teenage partisan who was tortured and slain by the German invaders of the USSR in 1941. She was posthumously hailed as a Heroine of the Soviet Union and her name was used to rally the Red Army in their struggle against the Hitlerites.
It's unlikely she wore a red scarf, but I took a little creative license both to allow a splash of colour and also to tie her to my Italian Brigate Garibaldi partisans.
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