In September 1918, the decree “On the Red Terror” was proclaimed, which gave rise to one of the most tragic pages in the history of Russia. Having essentially legalized the methods of radical elimination of dissenters, the Bolsheviks freed the hands of outright sadists and mentally ill people who received pleasure and moral satisfaction from murders.
Oddly enough, representatives of the fairer sex distinguished themselves with particular zeal.
Varvara Yakovleva
During the Civil War, Yakovleva served as deputy and then head of the Petrograd Emergency Commission (Cheka). The daughter of a Moscow merchant, she showed a rigidity that was amazing even for her contemporaries. In the name of a “bright future,” Yakovleva was ready to send as many “enemies of the revolution” to the next world without blinking an eye. The exact number of her victims is unknown. According to historians, this woman personally killed several hundred “counter-revolutionaries.”
Her active participation in mass repressions is confirmed by the execution lists of October-December 1918 published under the signature of Yakovleva herself. However, soon the “executioner of the revolution” was recalled from Petrograd by personal order of Vladimir Lenin. The fact is that Yakovleva led a promiscuous sex life, changed gentlemen like gloves, and therefore turned into an easily accessible source of information for spies.
Evgenia Bosh
Evgenia Bosh also “distinguished herself” in the field of executions. The daughter of a German immigrant and a Bessarabian noblewoman, she took an active part in revolutionary life since 1907. In 1918, Bosch became the head of the Penza party committee, her main task was to confiscate grain from the local peasantry.
In Penza and the surrounding area, Bosch’s cruelty in suppressing peasant uprisings was remembered decades later. She called those communists who tried to prevent the massacre of people “weak and soft-bodied” and accused them of sabotage.
Most historians studying the topic of the Red Terror believe that Bosch was mentally ill and herself provoked peasant uprisings for subsequent demonstrative massacres. Eyewitnesses recalled that in the village of Kuchki, the punisher, without blinking an eye, shot one of the peasants, which caused a chain reaction of violence on the part of the food detachments subordinate to her.
Vera Grebenshchikova
Odessa punisher Vera Grebenshchikova, nicknamed Dora, worked in the local “extraordinary emergency”. According to some sources, she personally sent 400 people to the next world, according to others - 700. Mostly nobles, white officers, too wealthy, in her opinion, townsfolk, as well as all those whom the female executioner considered unreliable, fell under the hot hand of Grebenshchikova .
Dora didn't just like killing. She took pleasure in torturing the unfortunate man for many hours, causing him unbearable pain. There is evidence that she tore off the skin of her victims, tore out their nails, and engaged in self-mutilation.
Grebenshchikova was helped in this “craft” by a prostitute named Alexandra, her sex partner, who was 18 years old. She has about 200 lives to her name.
Rosa Schwartz
Lesbian love was also practiced by Rosa Schwartz, a Kiev prostitute who ended up in the Cheka after denouncing one of her clients. Together with her friend Vera Schwartz, she also loved to practice sadistic games.
The ladies wanted thrills, so they came up with the most sophisticated ways of mocking the “counter-revolutionary elements.” Only after the victim was brought to the extreme state of exhaustion was he killed.
Rebekah Maisel
In Vologda, another “Valkyrie of the revolution” - Rebekah Aizel (pseudonym of Plastinin) - was running rampant. The husband of the executioner woman was Mikhail Kedrov, the head of the special department of the Cheka. Nervous, embittered at the whole world, they took out their complexes on others.
The “sweet couple” lived in a railway carriage next to the station. Interrogations were also conducted there. They shot a little further away - 50 meters from the carriage. Aizel personally killed at least a hundred people.
The female executioner also managed to kill herself in Arkhangelsk. There she carried out the death sentence against 80 White Guards and 40 civilians suspected of counter-revolutionary activities. On her orders, the security officers sank the barge with 500 people on board.
Rosalia Zemlyachka
But in terms of cruelty and ruthlessness there was no equal to Rosalia Zemlyachka. Coming from a family of merchants, in 1920 she received the post of the Crimean regional party committee, and at the same time became a member of the local revolutionary committee.
This woman immediately outlined her goals: speaking to fellow party members in December 1920, she stated that Crimea needed to be cleared of 300 thousand “White Guard elements.” The cleanup began immediately. Mass executions of captured soldiers, Wrangel officers, members of their families and representatives of the intelligentsia and nobility who were unable to leave the peninsula, as well as “too wealthy” local residents - all this became a common occurrence in the life of Crimea in those terrible years.
In her opinion, wasting ammunition on “enemies of the revolution” was unreasonable, therefore those sentenced to death were drowned with stones tied to their feet, loaded onto barges, and then drowned in the open sea. At least 50 thousand people were killed in this barbaric way. In total, under the leadership of Zemlyachka, about 100 thousand people were sent to the next world. However, the writer Ivan Shmelev, who was an eyewitness to the terrible events, stated that there were actually 120 thousand victims. It is noteworthy that the ashes of the punisher are buried in the Kremlin wall.
Antonina Makarova
Makarova (Tonka the Machine Gunner) - the executioner of the “Lokot Republic” - a collaborationist semi-autonomy during the Great Patriotic War. She was surrounded and chose to serve as a policeman with the Germans. I personally shot 200 people with a machine gun. After the war, Makarova, who married and changed her last name to Ginzburg, was searched for more than 30 years. Finally, in 1978, she was arrested and subsequently sentenced to death.
Antonina Makarova born in 1921 in the Smolensk region, in the village of Malaya Volkovka, into a large peasant family Makara Parfenova. She studied at a rural school, and it was there that an episode occurred that influenced her future life. When Tonya came to first grade, because of shyness she could not say her last name - Parfenova. Classmates began shouting “Yes, she’s Makarova!”, meaning that Tony’s father’s name is Makar.
So, with the light hand of the teacher, at that time perhaps the only literate person in the village, Tonya Makarova appeared in the Parfyonov family.
The girl studied diligently, with diligence. She also had her own revolutionary heroine - Anka the machine gunner. This film image had a real prototype - a nurse from the Chapaev division Maria Popova, which once in battle actually had to replace a killed machine gunner.
After graduating from school, Antonina went to study in Moscow, where the beginning of the Great Patriotic War found her. The girl went to the front as a volunteer.
Camping wife of an encirclement
19-year-old Komsomol member Makarova suffered all the horrors of the infamous “Vyazma Cauldron.”
After the hardest battles, in complete encirclement, only a soldier was found next to the young nurse Tonya from the entire unit. Nikolay Fedchuk. With him she wandered through the local forests, just trying to survive. They didn’t look for partisans, they didn’t try to get through to their own people - they fed on whatever they had, and sometimes stole. The soldier did not stand on ceremony with Tonya, making her his “camp wife.” Antonina did not resist - she just wanted to live.
In January 1942, they went to the village of Krasny Kolodets, and then Fedchuk admitted that he was married and his family lived nearby. He left Tonya alone.
Tonya was not expelled from the Red Well, but the local residents already had plenty of worries. But the strange girl did not try to go to the partisans, did not strive to make her way to ours, but strived to make love with one of the men remaining in the village. Having turned the locals against her, Tonya was forced to leave.
Antonina Makarova-Ginzburg. Photo: Public Domain
Salary killer
Tonya Makarova’s wanderings ended in the area of the village of Lokot in the Bryansk region. The notorious “Lokot Republic”, an administrative-territorial formation of Russian collaborators, operated here. In essence, these were the same German lackeys as in other places, only more clearly formalized.
A police patrol detained Tonya, but they did not suspect her of being a partisan or underground woman. She attracted the attention of the police, who took her in, gave her drink, food and rape. However, the latter is very relative - the girl, who only wanted to survive, agreed to everything.
Tonya did not play the role of a prostitute for the police for long - one day, drunk, she was taken out into the yard and put behind a Maxim machine gun. There were people standing in front of the machine gun - men, women, old people, children. She was ordered to shoot. For Tony, who completed not only nursing courses, but also machine gunners, this was not a big deal. True, the dead drunk woman didn’t really understand what she was doing. But, nevertheless, she coped with the task.
The next day, Makarova learned that she was now an official - an executioner with a salary of 30 German marks and with her own bed.
The Lokot Republic ruthlessly fought the enemies of the new order - partisans, underground fighters, communists, other unreliable elements, as well as members of their families. Those arrested were herded into a barn that served as a prison, and in the morning they were taken out to be shot.
The cell accommodated 27 people, and all of them had to be eliminated in order to make room for new ones.
Neither the Germans nor even the local policemen wanted to take on this work. And here Tonya, who appeared out of nowhere with her shooting abilities, came in very handy.
The girl did not go crazy, but on the contrary, felt that her dream had come true. And let Anka shoot her enemies, but she shoots women and children - the war will write off everything! But her life finally got better.
1500 lives lost
Antonina Makarova's daily routine was as follows: in the morning, shooting 27 people with a machine gun, finishing off the survivors with a pistol, cleaning weapons, in the evening schnapps and dancing in a German club, and at night making love with some cute German guy or, at worst, with a policeman.
As an incentive, she was allowed to take the belongings of the dead. So Tonya acquired a bunch of outfits, which, however, had to be repaired - traces of blood and bullet holes made it difficult to wear.
However, sometimes Tonya allowed a “marriage” - several children managed to survive because, due to their small stature, the bullets passed over their heads. The children were taken out along with the corpses by local residents who were burying the dead and handed over to the partisans. Rumors about a female executioner, “Tonka the machine gunner”, “Tonka the Muscovite” spread throughout the area. Local partisans even announced a hunt for the executioner, but were unable to reach her.
In total, about 1,500 people became victims of Antonina Makarova.
By the summer of 1943, Tony’s life again took a sharp turn - the Red Army moved to the West, beginning the liberation of the Bryansk region. This did not bode well for the girl, but then she conveniently fell ill with syphilis, and the Germans sent her to the rear so that she would not re-infect the valiant sons of Greater Germany.
Honored veteran instead of a war criminal
In the German hospital, however, it also soon became uncomfortable - the Soviet troops were approaching so quickly that only the Germans had time to evacuate, and there was no longer any concern for the accomplices.
Realizing this, Tonya escaped from the hospital, again finding herself surrounded, but now Soviet. But her survival skills were honed - she managed to obtain documents proving that all this time Makarova was a nurse in a Soviet hospital.
Antonina successfully managed to enlist in a Soviet hospital, where at the beginning of 1945 a young soldier, a real war hero, fell in love with her.
The guy proposed to Tonya, she agreed, and after getting married, the young couple, after the end of the war, left for the Belarusian city of Lepel, her husband’s homeland.
This is how the female executioner Antonina Makarova disappeared, and her place was taken by an honored veteran Antonina Ginzburg.
They searched for her for thirty years
Soviet investigators learned about the monstrous acts of “Tonka the Machine Gunner” immediately after the liberation of the Bryansk region. The remains of about one and a half thousand people were found in mass graves, but the identities of only two hundred could be established.
They interrogated witnesses, checked, clarified - but they could not get on the trail of the female punisher.
Meanwhile, Antonina Ginzburg led the ordinary life of a Soviet person - she lived, worked, raised two daughters, even met with schoolchildren, talking about her heroic military past. Of course, without mentioning the actions of “Tonka the Machine Gunner”.
The KGB spent more than three decades searching for her, but found her almost by accident. A certain citizen Parfyonov, going abroad, submitted forms with information about his relatives. There, among the solid Parfenovs, for some reason Antonina Makarova, after her husband Ginzburg, was listed as her sister.
Yes, how that teacher’s mistake helped Tonya, how many years thanks to it she remained out of reach of justice!
The KGB operatives worked brilliantly - it was impossible to accuse an innocent person of such atrocities. Antonina Ginzburg was checked from all sides, witnesses were secretly brought to Lepel, even a former policeman-lover. And only after they all confirmed that Antonina Ginzburg was “Tonka the Machine Gunner”, she was arrested.
She didn’t deny it, she talked about everything calmly, and said that nightmares didn’t torment her. She didn’t want to communicate with either her daughters or her husband. And the front-line husband ran around the authorities, threatening to file a complaint Brezhnev, even at the UN - demanded the release of his wife. Exactly until the investigators decided to tell him what his beloved Tonya was accused of.
After that, the dashing, dashing veteran turned gray and aged overnight. The family disowned Antonina Ginzburg and left Lepel. You wouldn’t wish what these people had to endure on your enemy.
Retribution
Antonina Makarova-Ginzburg was tried in Bryansk in the fall of 1978. This was the last major trial of traitors to the Motherland in the USSR and the only trial of a female punisher.
Antonina herself was convinced that, due to the passage of time, the punishment could not be too severe; she even believed that she would receive a suspended sentence. My only regret was that because of the shame I had to move again and change jobs. Even the investigators, knowing about Antonina Ginzburg’s exemplary post-war biography, believed that the court would show leniency. Moreover, 1979 was declared the Year of the Woman in the USSR.
However, on November 20, 1978, the court sentenced Antonina Makarova-Ginzburg to capital punishment - execution.
At the trial, her guilt in the murder of 168 people from those whose identities could be established was documented. More than 1,300 more remained unknown victims of “Tonka the Machine Gunner.” There are crimes that cannot be forgiven.
At six in the morning on August 11, 1979, after all requests for clemency were rejected, the sentence against Antonina Makarova-Ginzburg was carried out.
Varvara Yakovleva
Evgenia Bosh
Vera Grebenshchikova
Rosa Schwartz
Rebekah Maisel
Rosalia Zemlyachka
Antonina Makarova
Makarova (Tonka the Machine Gunner) – the executioner of the “Lokot Republic” – a collaborationist semi-autonomy during the Great Patriotic War. She was surrounded and chose to serve as a policeman with the Germans. I personally shot 200 people with a machine gun. After the war, Makarova, who married and changed her last name to Ginzburg, was searched for more than 30 years. Finally, in 1978, she was arrested and subsequently sentenced to death.
In September 1918, the decree “On the Red Terror” was proclaimed, which gave rise to one of the most tragic pages in the history of Russia. Having essentially legalized the methods of radical elimination of dissenters, the Bolsheviks freed the hands of outright sadists and mentally ill people who received pleasure and moral satisfaction from murders. Oddly enough, representatives of the fairer sex distinguished themselves with particular zeal.
Varvara Yakovleva
During the Civil War, Yakovleva served as deputy and then head of the Petrograd Emergency Commission (Cheka). The daughter of a Moscow merchant, she showed a rigidity that was amazing even for her contemporaries. In the name of a “bright future,” Yakovleva was ready to send as many “enemies of the revolution” to the next world without blinking an eye. The exact number of her victims is unknown. According to historians, this woman personally killed several hundred “counter-revolutionaries.”
Her active participation in mass repressions is confirmed by the execution lists of October-December 1918 published under the signature of Yakovleva herself. However, soon the “executioner of the revolution” was recalled from Petrograd by personal order of Vladimir Lenin. The fact is that Yakovleva led a promiscuous sex life, changed gentlemen like gloves, and therefore turned into an easily accessible source of information for spies.
Evgenia Bosh
Evgenia Bosh also “distinguished herself” in the field of executions. The daughter of a German immigrant and a Bessarabian noblewoman, she took an active part in revolutionary life since 1907. In 1918, Bosch became the head of the Penza party committee, her main task was to confiscate grain from the local peasantry.
In Penza and the surrounding area, Bosch’s cruelty in suppressing peasant uprisings was remembered decades later. She called those communists who tried to prevent the massacre of people “weak and soft-bodied” and accused them of sabotage.
Most historians studying the topic of the Red Terror believe that Bosch was mentally ill and herself provoked peasant uprisings for subsequent demonstrative massacres. Eyewitnesses recalled that in the village of Kuchki, the punisher, without blinking an eye, shot one of the peasants, which caused a chain reaction of violence on the part of the food detachments subordinate to her.
Vera Grebenshchikova
Odessa punisher Vera Grebenshchikova, nicknamed Dora, worked in the local “extraordinary emergency”. According to some sources, she personally sent 400 people to the next world, according to others - 700. Mostly nobles, white officers, too wealthy, in her opinion, townsfolk, as well as all those whom the female executioner considered unreliable, fell under Grebenshchikova’s hot hand .
Dora didn't just like killing. She took pleasure in torturing the unfortunate man for many hours, causing him unbearable pain. There is evidence that she tore off the skin of her victims, tore out their nails, and engaged in self-mutilation.
Grebenshchikova was helped in this “craft” by a prostitute named Alexandra, her sex partner, who was 18 years old. She has about 200 lives to her name.
Rosa Schwartz
Lesbian love was also practiced by Rosa Schwartz, a Kiev prostitute who ended up in the Cheka after denouncing one of her clients. Together with her friend Vera Schwartz, she also loved to practice sadistic games.
The ladies wanted thrills, so they came up with the most sophisticated ways of mocking the “counter-revolutionary elements.” Only after the victim was brought to the extreme state of exhaustion was he killed.
Rebekah Maisel
In Vologda, another “Valkyrie of the revolution”, Rebekah Aizel (pseudonym of Plastinin), was running rampant. The husband of the executioner woman was Mikhail Kedrov, the head of the special department of the Cheka. Nervous, embittered at the whole world, they took out their complexes on others.
The “sweet couple” lived in a railway carriage next to the station. Interrogations were also conducted there. They shot a little further away - 50 meters from the carriage. Aizel personally killed at least a hundred people.
The female executioner also managed to kill herself in Arkhangelsk. There she carried out the death sentence against 80 White Guards and 40 civilians suspected of counter-revolutionary activities. On her orders, the security officers sank the barge with 500 people on board.
Rosalia Zemlyachka
But in terms of cruelty and ruthlessness there was no equal to Rosalia Zemlyachka. Coming from a family of merchants, in 1920 she received the post of the Crimean regional party committee, and at the same time became a member of the local revolutionary committee.
This woman immediately outlined her goals: speaking to fellow party members in December 1920, she stated that Crimea needed to be cleared of 300 thousand “White Guard elements.” The cleanup began immediately. Mass executions of captured soldiers, Wrangel officers, members of their families and representatives of the intelligentsia and nobility who were unable to leave the peninsula, as well as “too wealthy” local residents - all this became a common occurrence in the life of Crimea in those terrible years.
In her opinion, wasting ammunition on “enemies of the revolution” was unreasonable, therefore those sentenced to death were drowned with stones tied to their feet, loaded onto barges, and then drowned in the open sea. At least 50 thousand people were killed in this barbaric way. In total, under the leadership of Zemlyachka, about 100 thousand people were sent to the next world. However, the writer Ivan Shmelev, who was an eyewitness to the terrible events, stated that there were actually 120 thousand victims. It is noteworthy that the ashes of the punisher are buried in the Kremlin wall.
Antonina Makarova
Makarova (Tonka the Machine Gunner) – the executioner of the “Lokot Republic” – a collaborationist semi-autonomy during the Great Patriotic War. She was surrounded and chose to serve as a policeman with the Germans. I personally shot 200 people with a machine gun. After the war, Makarova, who married and changed her last name to Ginzburg, was searched for more than 30 years. Finally, in 1978, she was arrested and subsequently sentenced to death.
In September 1918, the decree “On the Red Terror” was proclaimed, which gave rise to one of the most tragic pages in the history of Russia. Having essentially legalized the methods of radical elimination of dissenters, the Bolsheviks freed the hands of outright sadists and mentally ill people who received pleasure and moral satisfaction from murders.
Oddly enough, representatives of the fairer sex distinguished themselves with particular zeal.
Varvara Yakovleva
During the Civil War, Yakovleva served as deputy and then head of the Petrograd Emergency Commission (Cheka). The daughter of a Moscow merchant, she showed a rigidity that was amazing even for her contemporaries. In the name of a “bright future,” Yakovleva was ready to send as many “enemies of the revolution” to the next world without blinking an eye. The exact number of her victims is unknown. According to historians, this woman personally killed several hundred “counter-revolutionaries.”
Her active participation in mass repressions is confirmed by the execution lists of October-December 1918 published under the signature of Yakovleva herself. However, soon the “executioner of the revolution” was recalled from Petrograd by personal order of Vladimir Lenin. The fact is that Yakovleva led a promiscuous sex life, changed gentlemen like gloves, and therefore turned into an easily accessible source of information for spies.
Evgenia Bosh
Evgenia Bosh also “distinguished herself” in the field of executions. The daughter of a German immigrant and a Bessarabian noblewoman, she took an active part in revolutionary life since 1907. In 1918, Bosch became the head of the Penza party committee, her main task was to confiscate grain from the local peasantry.
In Penza and the surrounding area, Bosch’s cruelty in suppressing peasant uprisings was remembered decades later. She called those communists who tried to prevent the massacre of people “weak and soft-bodied” and accused them of sabotage.
Most historians studying the topic of the Red Terror believe that Bosch was mentally ill and herself provoked peasant uprisings for subsequent demonstrative massacres. Eyewitnesses recalled that in the village of Kuchki, the punisher, without blinking an eye, shot one of the peasants, which caused a chain reaction of violence on the part of the food detachments subordinate to her.
Vera Grebenshchikova
Odessa punisher Vera Grebenshchikova, nicknamed Dora, worked in the local “extraordinary emergency”. According to some sources, she personally sent 400 people to the next world, according to others - 700. Mostly nobles, white officers, too wealthy, in her opinion, townsfolk, as well as all those whom the female executioner considered unreliable, fell under Grebenshchikova’s hot hand .
Dora didn't just like killing. She took pleasure in torturing the unfortunate man for many hours, causing him unbearable pain. There is evidence that she tore off the skin of her victims, tore out their nails, and engaged in self-mutilation.
Grebenshchikova was helped in this “craft” by a prostitute named Alexandra, her intimate partner, who was 18 years old. She has about 200 lives to her name.
Rosa Schwartz
Lesbian love was also practiced by Rosa Schwartz, a Kiev prostitute who ended up in the Cheka after denouncing one of her clients. Together with her friend Vera Schwartz, she also loved to practice sadistic games.
The ladies wanted a thrill, so they came up with the most sophisticated ways to mock the “counter-revolutionary elements.” Only after the victim was brought to the extreme state of exhaustion was he killed.
Rebekah Maisel
In Vologda, another “Valkyrie of the revolution”, Rebekah Aizel (pseudonym of Plastinin), was running rampant. The husband of the executioner woman was Mikhail Kedrov, the head of the special department of the Cheka. Nervous, embittered at the whole world, they took out their complexes on others.
The “sweet couple” lived in a railway carriage next to the station. Interrogations were also conducted there. They shot a little further away - 50 meters from the carriage. Aizel personally killed at least a hundred people.
The female executioner managed to play tricks in Arkhangelsk as well. There she carried out the death sentence against 80 White Guards and 40 civilians suspected of counter-revolutionary activities. On her orders, the security officers sank the barge with 500 people on board.
Rosalia Zemlyachka
But in terms of cruelty and ruthlessness there was no equal to Rosalia Zemlyachka. Coming from a family of merchants, in 1920 she received the post of the Crimean regional party committee, and at the same time became a member of the local revolutionary committee.
This woman immediately outlined her goals: speaking to fellow party members in December 1920, she stated that Crimea needed to be cleared of 300 thousand “White Guard elements.” The cleanup began immediately. Mass executions of captured soldiers, Wrangel officers, members of their families and representatives of the intelligentsia and nobility who were unable to leave the peninsula, as well as “too wealthy” local residents - all this became a common occurrence in the life of Crimea in those terrible years.
In her opinion, wasting ammunition on “enemies of the revolution” was unreasonable, therefore those sentenced to death were drowned with stones tied to their feet, loaded onto barges, and then drowned in the open sea. At least 50 thousand people were killed in this barbaric way. In total, under the leadership of Zemlyachka, about 100 thousand people were sent to the next world. However, the writer Ivan Shmelev, who was an eyewitness to the terrible events, stated that there were actually 120 thousand victims. It is noteworthy that the ashes of the punisher were buried in the Kremlin wall.
Antonina Makarova
Makarova (Tonka the Machine Gunner) – the executioner of the “Lokot Republic” – a collaborationist semi-autonomy during the Great Patriotic War. She was surrounded and chose to serve as a policeman with the Germans. I personally shot 200 people with a machine gun. After the war, Makarova, who got married and changed her last name to Ginzburg, was searched for more than 30 years. Finally, in 1978, she was arrested and subsequently sentenced to death.
The media have compiled the top 5 most violent women in history, reports Diletant Media.
Russian noblewoman Saltychikha- this was the nickname of Daria Nikolaevna Saltykova (1730 - 1801). At the age of 26, she became a widow, after which about 600 peasant souls came into her undivided possession. The next few years became a real hell for these people. Saltychikha, who during her husband’s life was not distinguished by any unhealthy inclinations, began to torture the peasants for the slightest offense or without it. By order of the mistress, people were flogged, starved, and driven out naked into the cold. Saltychikha herself could pour boiling water over the peasant or burn his hair. She also often tore out the hair of her victims with her hands, which testifies to the remarkable strength of Daria Nikolaevna.
In seven years, she killed 139 people. These were mostly women of different ages. It was noted that Saltychikha loved to kill girls who were soon going to get married. The authorities received many complaints against the torturer, but cases were regularly resolved in favor of the defendant, who was generous with rich gifts to influential people. The case was only progressed under Catherine II, who decided to make the trial of Saltychikha a show. She was sentenced to death, but was eventually imprisoned in a monastery prison.
Norwegian-American Belle Gunness, who had nicknames "Black Widow" and "Hell Belle", became the most famous female killer in US history. She sent her boyfriends, husbands and even her own children to the next world. The motive for Gunness's crimes was the taking of insurance and money. All of her children were insured, and when they died from some kind of poisoning, Hell Belle received payments from the insurance company. However, sometimes she killed people in order to eliminate witnesses.
Black Widow is believed to have died in 1908. However, her death is shrouded in mystery. One day the woman disappeared, and some time later her headless, charred corpse was discovered. The identity of these remains as Belle Gunness remains unproven to this day.
The fate of Antonina Makarova, better known as "Tonka the Machine Gunner." In 1941, during World War II, as a nurse, she was surrounded and found herself in occupied territory. Seeing that the Russians who had sided with the Germans lived better than others, she decided to join the auxiliary police of the Lokotsky district, where she worked as an executioner. For executions, I asked the Germans for a Maxim machine gun.
According to official data, in total Tonka the Machine Gunner executed about 1,500 people. The woman combined her work as an executioner with prostitution - the German military used her services. At the end of the war, Makarova obtained fake documents, married front-line soldier V.S. Ginzburg, who did not know about her past, and took his last name.
Chekists arrested her only in 1978 in Belarus, convicted her as a war criminal and sentenced her to death. Soon the sentence was carried out. Makarova became one of three women in the USSR who were sentenced to death in the post-Stalin era. It is noteworthy that the classification of secrecy has not yet been removed from the case of Tonka the Machine Gunner.
Nickname Bloody Mary (or Bloody Mary) received after death by Mary I Tudor (1516−1558). The daughter of the English king Henry VIII went down in history as a ruler who actively tried to return the country to the fold of the Roman Catholic Church. This happened against the backdrop of brutal repressions against Protestants, persecution and murder of church hierarchs, and reprisals against innocent people.
Even those Protestants who agreed to convert to Catholicism before execution were burned at the stake. The queen died of a fever, and the day of her death became a national holiday in the country. Remembering the cruelty of Bloody Mary, Her Majesty’s subjects did not erect a single monument to her.
Irma Grese's victims called her " Blonde Devil", "Angel of Death" or "Beautiful Monster". She was one of the most brutal guards at the Ravensbrück, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen women's death camps in Hitler's Germany. She personally tortured prisoners, selected people to be sent to the gas chambers, beat women to death and had fun in the most sophisticated way. In particular, Grese starved dogs in order to later set them on tortured victims.
The warden had a special style - she always wore heavy black boots, carried a pistol and a wicker whip. In 1945, the "Blonde Devil" was captured by the British. She was sentenced to death by hanging. Before her execution, 22-year-old Grese had fun and sang songs. She, remaining calm until the last moment, said only one word to her executioner: “Faster.”
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