Soviet Nazi collaborator & prostitute who murdered 1500 inocents: A. Makarova
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Antonina Makarova, known as “Tonka the Machine-Gun Girl,” was a Soviet woman who collaborated with Nazi Germany, executing around 1,500 civilians, including women and children. Once a nurse, she became the Nazis’ paid executioner in the Lokot Republic. Decades later, her hidden past was uncovered, and in 1979 she became one of the few women executed by the Soviet Union.
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