Antonina Makarova manner of death capital punishment
Antonina Makarovna Makarova (née Panfilova, Ginsburg by marriage, Russian: Антонина Макаровна Макарова, 1 March 1920 – 11 August 1979) was a Soviet war criminal and executioner who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. From 1942 to 1943, she executed hundreds of Soviet partisans and their family members using a machine gun. Makarova was caught 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 executions, but was implicated in about 1,500 executions.
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