Major General Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin killed tens of thousands of people at Stalin’s command.
For decades, citizens of the Soviet Union lived in constant fear of secret police organizations empowered to dole out punishment. Beyond the threat of imprisonment or exile, the dreaded elite executioners posed a terrifying threat. Of these professional mass murderers, Vasily Blokhin boasted the highest body count.
Rising to prominence within the shadowy ranks of the secret police, Blokhin became an instrument of death in Joseph Stalin’s numerous purges and in the brutal repression which lay at the foundation of the Soviet empire. Though his killing spree began in the 1920s, Blokhin’s most gruesome achievement came during World War II.
Over just 28 days in the spring of 1940, he was personally charged with planning the execution of over 20,000 Polish prisoners of war. Blokhin shot as many as 7,000 prisoners personally, one by one, cementing himself as one of the most prolific individual killers in world history.
This is the chilling story of Vasily Blokhin, the Soviet Union’s bloodiest executioner.
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Vasily Blokhin was a Soviet Russian Major-General who served as the chief executioner of the Stalinist NKVD under the administrations of Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov, and Lavrentiy Beria.
Blokhin led a company of executioners that performed and supervised numerous mass executions during Stalin's reign, mostly during the Great Purge and World War II.
He is recorded as having executed tens of thousands of prisoners by his own hand, including his killing of about 7,000 Polish prisoners of war in spring 1940, making him the most prolific official executioner and mass murderer in recorded world history.
In general, according to various estimates, over the years of service, about 35 thousand people were personally shot.
To his "merits", Blokhin was awarded with many state awards, including the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of the Red Star and many others.
This is just one example of what the USSR really was. Throughout 70 years of Soviet rule, the populations of many different nationalities and ethnicities were decimated, displaced, killed by artificial famine, tortured, persecuted, their lives, cultures, and livelihoods destroyed.
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