Red salute to Lepa Svetozara Radic

On this day, 19 December 1925, Lepa Svetozara Radic was born in Bosanska Gradiska, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Lepa became a communist and joined the anti-Nazi partisans aged 15 in 1941. She was captured in 1943 while organising a rescue of around 150 women and children attempting to escape the fascists. The Germans offered to spare her life if she gave up the names of her comrades, but she responded that she was not a traitor and her comrades would reveal themselves when they avenged her death. The executioner subsequently reported that the "bandit" had "shown unprecedented defiance". The Yugoslav partisans eventually successfully defeated the Nazis the fascist Ustashe regime.