Biography
Alexander Yukhnovsky - Soviet military criminal, who was a German punisher during the occupation of Ukraine. The traitor lived for many years under the fictional name, hiding his past atrocities, but in the end it was revealed and received by merit.Childhood and youth
Alexander Ivanovich Yukhnovsky was born on June 19, 1925 in the village of Green, the USSR. The father of the traitor was an officer Simon Petlisura, under Soviet power first served as a priest of the renewed Orthodox church, then he was engaged in agriculture. Grandfather Ivan Viktorovich Novosade killed a boy love for history and literature.
Mother was a priest's daughter, his parents divorced when the guy was in school. They moved to the Father in the village of prospect, where they lived in the threesome with the stepmother Alexander Anna Denisovaya Mironenko. Talking about personal life, Yukhnovsky described himself as an unlocked, closed child with a timid character, alien society. From his parent, he inherited Ukrainian nationalism and wrote poems of appropriate content. The family led a double life, secretly hating socialism and pretending loyal Soviet citizens.
During the occupation
When the Nazis seized Ukraine, Alexander's father became the head of the German police of Romna and began its activities from hanging 200 people. Son a man attached to the ranks of German punishers GFK-721. These people struggled with anti-fascist moods, conducted clouds, convened the prisoners, destroyed employees of intercom groups, underground fighters, television, did not disappear children. Also committed massacres of people in the Donbas, Chernihiv, Kharkov and Rostov regions. Their platforms and squadrons for the most part consisted of local residents, anti-communists who switched to the side of Adolf Hitler. At first, Yukhnovsky was a simple translator, but then took part in executions, manifested such cruelty that he received a nickname from the Nazis, and from compatriots - whip (there was a religious fanatics sectants).At the end of 1942, the collaborationist was awarded a German medal, dismissed from fees and duties, apartments and physical work. One day he broke the face of German-Burgomaster in anger, but was not punished, which was nonsense for Slavs. Also, the sadist's young man deserved a business trip to the German Reich, where he got acquainted with German girls and drove them into cinemas.
In August 1944, Alexander, realizing the inevitability of the defeat of Adolf Hitler, left the ranks of the German troops, changed the passport and joined the Red Army. Yukhnovsky said that parents died in the bombing, during which the documents allegedly burned down. He was still a Yun, so the military did not interrogate with the addiction.
The traitor took the surname of the stepmother, now his name was Alexander Grigorievich Mironenko. True, the young man identified the soldiers by the surname Schoyuko, but the traitor offered to go to the military part to clarify everything, and on the way the man is broken with a knife. In the future, he served in the headquarters, commanded the Rota, was in demand as a linguist.
After the war
The collaborationist successfully worked as a journalist, wrote notes, glorifying communism and Soviet power. In the 1960s, he headed the edition of the publisher specializing in military literature. Among the colleagues was known as a decent and peace-loving person, an executive officer with a flawless reputation.
Corollary and court
In 1965, Yukhnovsky became a challenged for joining the CPSU, and he had to state the facts of his biography. The Commission found inconsistencies with what he reported earlier. Alexander demanded to document the receipt of the Order of Glory, which he did not. According to another version, the traitor learned on the street former victim, Vera Ivanovna Kravets. The Institute of Military History of the GDRs was connected to the case, 40 cities and villages were checked, where GFK was performed.
There are several evidence of punisher crimes. It was reported that he broke his fingers caught in the prisoner's section, shot a 17-year-old girl, personally executed 2 thousand people, mostly Jews and Communists. He was a provocateur, thanks to an extraordinary acting ability to confident in people. Also dealt with the murders in the city of Stalino, where the coal mine No. 4/4-bis "Kalinovka" became a grave for 75 thousand victims, the cause of the death of most of them was shot in the back of the head, some died of fractures during the fall. In fact, 2/3 of the city's population was destroyed, including women with breast babies.
The traitor Motherland was arrested on June 2, 1975, which became a shock for colleagues who were going to celebrate his 50th anniversary. The military criminal was sent to Lefortovo. At interrogations, he first denied his involvement in the Nazi Terror, then he hardly tried to reduce the degree of his guilt. In the punitive detachment, according to his own words, entered from fear, perfect in the youth of the action called "a mistake" and declared repentance.
Personal life
Yukhnovsky was married, the spouse worked in the publishing house "Higher School", had a daughter who married Germans. After the arrest, his relatives turned out to be compromised, their careers were destroyed.Shot
In 1976, the Soviet court sentenced Yukhnovsky to the death penalty. The criminal was shot on June 23, 1977.