WWII Honor where honour is Due: Ordinary Heros

A small Komsomol organization Young Guards consisted of only a hundred people. Young Guards were based in the small mining town of Krasnodon. Tortures could not break young people’s courage. Fascists threw 70 bodies in the mine on January 15, 16, and 31, 1943. The mine was 50 meters deep. The leaders of the Young Guards association (Koshevoy, Shevtsov, Ostapenko, Ogurtsov, Subbotin) were brutally tortured and shot on February 9th, 1943 in the forest near the settlement of Rovenki. Only eleven young guards managed to save their lives and run away from the fascist police. Everyone else from the Young Guards group were shot by fascists. Some of them died on the front later.
· Alexander Fadeyev’s Novel based on History [Pravda]

In the Name of Peace: Above the Mines
· Baring Witness
· Next will be Grace’s Group at Byron Bay [Common Dreams]