In 1976, in the small town of Lip in Belarus, a group of heavily armed police officers surrounded the home of a World War II veteran, Ginsburg, and then captured Ginsburg's wife, Antonina.
The townspeople who were watching were stunned for a while, after all, Antonina was in the town, an old woman who did her duty, and really did not know what crime she had committed. However, when Antonina confessed in front of everyone that she was Antonina Makarova, who killed more than 1,500 guerrillas and her family during the Great Patriotic War, everyone could not believe her ears, and her husband Ginsburg, as an old Red Army, almost fainted.
The KGB and the police at the scene breathed a sigh of relief. In order to bring this unpunished, blood-debted female demon head to justice, they hunted for 30 years. So why did Makarova, a native of the Soviet Union, end up being an accomplice of the Germans? How did the KGB track her down?
Makarova was born in 1920. When she remembered and went to school, it was the golden age of the emerging Soviet Union, the reconstruction of the motherland, and the country was a thriving scene, and everyone was full of energy. It is reasonable to say that Makarova, who has come all the way, should have a good life.
However, there is also a tragedy called the Soviet Union, which was born in the 1920s.
The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, which began in 1941, was the bloodiest and most brutal war in human history. The Soviet Union paid a terrible price of 30 million casualties in order to win the war, and the population of the Soviet Union at that time was only 200 million. Among them, the loss of the "post-20s" is extremely heavy.
And Makarova, who was born in 1920, did live to the end of the war, in a very shameful way.
In 1941, Germany blitzed the Soviet Union and the Soviet-German War broke out. Before this, Germany had been raging in Europe for a long time, and the Soviet high command had long known that this battle would be fought sooner or later, so the armament war was not idle, and in less than a few years, the army was expanded by millions, and Makarova was also conscripted into the army and became a medic.
But the Germans also knew that once the Soviets had reorganized these armies, it would be difficult to fight, so they preemptively started the war.
Sure enough, in the face of the German surprise attack, the Soviet Union was caught off guard. The Germans marched straight in, and the peak of the army pointed directly at Moscow.
In Viazima, the Soviet Union suffered a very heavy defeat, the strength of the three armies was completely annihilated by the Germans, a total of more than 1 million Soviet troops were killed, more than 600,000 Soviet troops were captured, known in history as the "Vyazma Disaster".
And Makarova was among these Soviet troops. The Soviets were in disarray, and she was rescuing the wounded when suddenly a German shell came and stunned her. The Germans who rushed up thought she had been killed, so they didn't care about her.
A day later, Makarova slowly woke up, rubbed her sore head and stood up, only to find the corpses of her comrades around her, and the lifeless, terrible silence on the battlefield.
For Makarova, the atmosphere is terrifying. She didn't know how she was going to survive, but she didn't want to be in this hell for a moment. So she shifted her steps and walked toward a town she remembered as Lockett, intending to try her luck.
Sure enough, Lockett was already occupied by the Germans. When Makarova saw the mighty Germans passing in front of her, her heart was more fearful and confused than the hatred for these people.
A German soldier saw Makarova. Of course he knew the identity of the poor woman in front of him, but for some purpose they did not embarrass Makarova, but took her in.
Makarova now had nothing else to ask for, just to find a job to live. Faced with her request, the Germans excitedly gave Makarova the task of shooting and killing her own compatriots, partisans captured by the Germans.
For the Soviets, the blow of the "Vyazma Disaster" was heavy, but in the face of the iron hooves of the invaders, many soviet soldiers who were scattered, and the local militia and civilians refused to live under the iron hooves of the German army like Makarova. They chose to form guerrilla groups, indomitable attacks and attacks against the local Germans, and did their best to contribute to the Great Patriotic War.
And the Germans gave Makarova such a murderous task, probably in order to destroy Makarova's will, so that she could be more tame to the German army and willingly be used by them.
At the beginning of receiving such an order, Makarova naturally developed a great resistance. But after staying in the German barracks for a long time, day after day being brainwashed by the false intelligence of the "defeat of the Soviet Union" in the German base camp, coupled with the coercion and inducement of the German army and her own hedonistic character, Makarova finally gave in.
Of course, at the first execution, Makarova was still panicked, and she simply drunk herself, walked slowly to the execution ground, and shot at the compatriots who had sworn to defend the country. Since then, it has officially embarked on the road of no return.
As the saying goes, the murderer is often difficult to kill when he kills the first person, but when he kills the second person, it will often go much smoother. Makarova, who had the innocent blood of her compatriots on her hands, knew that she could not turn her head back, and her actions were even more depraved.
If she had shown a little shame when she shot her compatriots, closed her eyes during the execution, and had nightmares after the execution, and couldn't sleep, then a year later, Makarova had transformed into a female demon who killed people without blinking.
Not only could she kill the guerrillas and their wives and children without psychological burden, but she could also comfortably smoke a cigarette to the cell before the execution, and visit the fighters who were about to die at her hands. In the face of this treasonous woman seeking glory, the guerrillas will respond with merciless scolding, while innocent old and young women and children will complain bitterly to her. Makarova could understand the sounds, but after two hours she would respond mercilessly to them with the cold sound of gunfire.
After completing the "work", Makarova would take off her military uniform, put on heavy makeup, attend receptions and parties in the occupied areas, and get close and personal with the German executioners who killed people without blinking.
Makarova's psychology is actually very easy to understand. She felt that the current situation of the war was already like this, and she alone could not reverse the course of the war, as long as the individual could live well, as for the national peril, it was really not something she should consider.
Just when Makarova had "come to her senses," the Soviets told her in action that the sacrifices of the guerrillas she executed were not meaningless.
On June 22, 1944, the same day that the Germans carried out the Barbarossa Plan, the Already Well-trained Red Army launched Operation Bagration and began to counterattack the German Army Group Center.
At this time, the guerrillas within the German occupation zone also responded in groups, turning German rule in the occupied area upside down and greatly disintegrating the german army's dominance. Army Group Center was wiped out, and the Soviet Red Army was destroyed, washing away the shame of the Vyazma disaster in one fell swoop.
Unfortunately, Makarova did not see all this with her own eyes. Because of her years of wandering with German officers, Makarova's body suffered from a minor illness. The Germans, fearing that her illness would spread to others, sent her to the rear for treatment, and as a result, the front foot had just sent her away, and the Soviets on the back foot killed her.
As soon as the local guerrillas and the Soviets met in victory, they handed over to the upper echelons a list of Makarova's names that they had collected over the years for the trial and sentencing of these traitors. At the same time, the guerrillas told the Red Army that Makarova had been transferred, hoping that they would be able to track her down, never let her run away, and must avenge the more than 1,500 ghosts who died at her hands.
Makarova, who had been moved to the rear, did not run very far, because the Germans were defeated too quickly, and she was soon captured by the Soviets. But Makarova's luck was quite good, she lied that she was a female soldier who had been taken captive by the Germans, and was bullied by the Germans before being sent to this place for medical treatment.
The Soviet soldiers did not embarrass her and allowed her to continue her treatment. After the war, Makarova married a retired veteran named Ginsburg, and the two moved to the small town of Lip to live a quiet and secretive life.
In order to find Makarova, the Soviet intelligence agencies could not be said to be unsettling, nor could it be said that they were not lasting, and they investigated for more than 30 years and never gave up. It was just that the name Antonina Makarova was so common in the Soviet Union that after the war, the Ministry of internal affairs found more than 250 Antonina Makarova, but none of these people were identified and investigated by the guerrillas. So the ministry of internal affairs is also worried about this.
After Makarova married Ginsburg, she naturally changed her husband's surname. Coupled with the fact that Makarova's real surname is Pavnova, Makarova is just a pseudonym she casually gave when she went to school and joined the army. Therefore, when registering her household registration after the war, Makarova naturally did not blush and reported her real surname Pavnova, avoiding her notorious name of "Makarova", thus escaping the disaster.
Maybe makarova at this time really wanted to wash her hands in the golden basin and retire to the countryside. But past experiences can never be erased. In 1976, an official's visa to leave the country exposed her identity to the sun.
The officer was a relative of Makarova. He was ready to go abroad, and when he submitted the approval, he needed to report on the situation of his family according to the custom. Among the family information submitted by this official, there is a row of Pavnov and Pavnova, but there is only one Makarova. In the official's words, he thought that the change of name of this relative was very interesting, so he deliberately wrote it down.
However, this "Makarova" that appeared out of thin air soon attracted the attention of the KGB. They followed the vine and quickly identified Makarova, who was living in seclusion in Belarus.
In August 1976, Makarova was arrested and arrested, and countless former Soviet guerrillas burst into tears with excitement, and after 30 years of searching, the female demon finally confessed to the law.
After a trial in a Soviet court, Makarova confessed to her crime. But she insisted that she had only done these things to survive in the German-occupied areas, and at most it would be sentenced to almost three years.
But Makarova probably did not think that the powerful country in which she now lived was envisioned and defended by the more than 1,500 guerrillas who died at her hands. Isn't it a great antics that she took the lives of these warriors while enjoying the shade of the country in their place?
So in the face of Makarova's defense, the Soviet judge was unmoved and insisted on sentencing her to death. This blood debt, which spanned nearly 40 years, was finally repaid.