Vasily Blokhin was the main executioner of the People's Commissariat of the Interior (NKVD) at the three commissioners - Lavrentia Beria, Nikolae John and Henry Berry.
How many people executed Vasily Blokhin, being the first executioner of StalinVasily Blokhin was the main executioner of the People's Commissariat of the Interior (NKVD) at the three commissioners - Lavrentia Beria, Nikolae John and Henry Berry. He was chosen by the Soviet leader personally chosen him. He became the head of the so-called shot team, which performed most of the executions in those years.
Blokhin was born in ordinary peasant seven under Suzdal in 1895. He went to the front in 1914, and joined the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution. He fell into the All-Russian Emergency Commission, which was engaged in finding spies and enemies of the people in 1921.
The future executioner highly appreciated the bosses. Blokhin was devoted to his work, executive and reliable. So it is not surprising that he quickly moved along the stairs. In the mid-1920s, Blokhin has already become the commandant of Lubyanka's internal prison. There he was allowed to work quite independently - without the intervention of party bodies and additional checks.
Palace №1Mortal sentences performed his subordinates, but Blokhin never refused himself the pleasure of self to execute the prisoner. Some of the old members of the Communist Party, who turned out to be superfluous in the Stalin system, fell from his hand. Blokhin executed the two of his former bosses - Nicholas Jesova and Henry Yody, and Mikhail Tukhachevsky died from his hands. Blokhin performed the death sentence to theatrical director Vsevolod Meyerhold, Journalist Mikhail Koltsov and many other artists and cultures that came under Stalin's repression.
Interestingly, Blokhin's companion was always vodka. There is information about the fact that almost after each execution, the executioners rushed a booze. One of the members of the Blokhin team recalls how they drove each time before the loss of consciousness. They justified their boys with the specifics of their work, and first of all its psychological component. In the literal sense of the word, the executioners were withered cologne. Otherwise it was impossible to get rid of the smell of gunpowder and blood. But despite all this, "Palace number 1" was proud of his business. For the faithful service, he received the title of Major State Security.
Katyn.The black page of the Biography of Blokhina is considered to be the execution of the Polish servicemen in the Spring of 1940. There is information that Blokhin with a team was destroyed for several months for almost seven thousand people who were captured during the campaign of the Red Army to Poland.
The main punisher determined the rule of punishment - for the night of 300 people. Sentenced to death one by one was turned into a red premises, where their identity was established. After that, they were led to a neighboring room. In this room there were soundproofed walls so that no one hear the screams of the unfortunate. There was a drainage, where the blood was drained from the hose with water.
Blokhin tried to externally comply with the work performed by him. Its full uniforms added gloves and leather apron. He pressed the doomed to death to the wall and did a shot from the German Walter. But the Soviet TT-30 did not trust and thought it was not particularly reliable.
Major GeneralEveryone knew about creative flea atrochemical atrocities surrounded by Stalin. Somehow the Lavrenty Beria started cleaning the personnel, after removing the post of Peace of Internal Affairs of Nicholas John. At this time, the leadership of the People's Commissariat of the People's Commissariat, where it was said that the killer number! He was close to the former head of the NKVD Henry Berry, and if so, then it is worth doubting his reliability. When Beria collected all the sanctions on the arrest, he went to the leader of the peoples. But to his surprise, Stalin refused him. Surprisingly, but in spite of all the suspicion of Stalin, he was not embarrassed by the fact that people who were accustomed to shoot at the head. In such people he did not trust. After the Beria himself, said Stalin to stand for the executioner and said that someone still had to do such a job.
And Blokhin coped with such work with a bang. In April 1940, he received the Order of the Red Banner and a Great Monetary Prize. He reached the tops in 1945 by receiving the title of Major General.
SunsetIn 1939, Stalin did not take Beria to destroy the executioner, but after the death of the leader he had no support at the highest level. Beria took the post of Minister of Internal Affairs, after the redistribution of powerful powers and hurried to get rid of Blokhin blurred. He discharged Blokhin thanks for the service, freed from the duties and sent to his retirement.
But the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs itself did not resist the prestabilization head. In 1953, Beria was arrested and shot. And next year, Blokhin was deprived of the title of major general for the "discrediting of high rank" during service.
The 59-year-old executioner, remaining with nothing to drink a lot and often had nervous breakdowns. Blokhin died in 1955, a few months later, after the deprivation of the general pursuit. It is officially believed that he died from a heart attack, but there were rumors that he shot himself. Thus, Walter, who deprived the lives of numerous people.
For all the time of work, Blokhin sent to that light from about 10,000 to 15,000 people. Until now, the exact number of victims of Blokhin is unknown.