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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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00:00At 1.20 a.m. on the 22nd of September, 1943, the bomb detonated, 40 minutes earlier than planned.
00:09However, because Kuba had already gone to bed, the explosion blew him to pieces, killing him instantly.
00:15His pregnant wife, who had been sleeping in a separate bed, survived unharmed.
00:20Following the successful assassination, Mazanik joined the partisans in the forests and evaded Nazi capture.
00:30Mazanik
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