March 1, 1920 - Antonina Makarova
What makes Makarova's case historically distinctive is not just the scale of her killings but their personal, hands-on nature — she operated a machine gun herself, executing hundreds of Soviet partisans and civilians over roughly a year while working in direct collaboration with Nazi occupiers. She evaded identification for decades after the war, living an ordinary Soviet life until investigators finally traced her in the 1970s. Her case remains one of the rare documented instances of a Soviet woman tried and executed for wartime collaboration and mass murder.
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Antonina Makarovna Makarova (née Panfilova, Ginsburg by marriage, Russian: Антонина Макаровна Макарова, 1 March 1920 – 11 August 1979) was a Soviet war criminal and mass murderer who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. From 1942 to 1943, she shot dead hundreds of Soviet partisans and their family members using a Russian M1910 Maxim machine gun. Makarova was tentatively identified by the Soviet KGB in 1976, and observed for a year before being arrested in 1978. Makarova was convicted of treason, sentenced to death, and executed in 1979. She was known as "Tonka the Machine-Gun Girl". Makarova was prosecuted for her role in at least 168 deaths, but was implicated in about 1,500 murders.
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