Only a year lasted the so-called. The Lokot Republic, a semi-autonomous territory in the rear of the Wehrmacht, which included eight regions of the Oryol, Bryansk and Kursk regions occupied by the Germans. Here, in the summer of 1942, the Hitlerites launched a “test project” to create a self-governing structure for the future Muscovy Reich Commissariat. Lokotsky self-government was headed by the famous collaborator Bronislaw Kaminsky.
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A former member of the CPSU (b), expelled from the party in 1935 for criticizing collectivization, Kaminsky served the link several times. The last place where he was exiled at the beginning of the 1941 year was the village of Lokot, then belonging to the Oryol region (now it is part of the Bryansk region). Here Kaminsky worked as a chief technologist at a local distillery.
4 of October 1941 of the year The Nazis occupied the elbow. Kaminsky immediately went over to the side of the invaders and was appointed deputy mayor of Constantine Voskoboinik. At the same time, he became Voskoboinik's deputy in the last created by the People’s Socialist Party of Russia. The Russian Liberation People's Army (RONA) was also formed, whose units participated in counter-guerrilla raids of the Nazi troops. When Konstantin Voskoboinik was mortally wounded by partisans, Kaminsky was succeeded by him as the mayor of Lokotsky self-government.
At the beginning of 1942, a young girl appeared in the Loktya region. Her name was Antonina, Tonya. She was only 22 of the year - Antonina Makarovna Makarova, whose last name was actually Parfenova or Panfilova, was born on 1 on March 1920 of the year in a large peasant family. For some reason, at school, the teacher, without checking, wrote down Parfenova (Panfilova) Makarova - by patronymic. Tonya received a passport for this surname, and then a Komsomol ticket.
When the war began, the girl went to the front as a volunteer. She served as a barmaid and a nurse in the Red Army, during the Vyazemsky operation she was captured by Germany, but fled and wandered through the forests for several months with her companion, Red Army soldier Nikolai Fedchuk. But then the couple went to the village of Red Well, where Fedchuk lived a family. There, the Red Army soldier left Tonya and the girl hung around for some time in the village, engaging in prostitution. In the end, dissatisfied rural residents escorted the damsel from the Red Well and Tonya ended up in Lokot, where she continued her previous occupation from hopelessness.
There, in Lokta, Tonya Makarova came to the headquarters of collaborators Bronislaw Kaminsky. German officers at the Lokot auxiliary police offered Tony a salary and a room at the local stud farm. But it was required to enter the service and perform special tasks - to shoot the arrested and prisoners. Tonya agreed. She was handed a machine gun and was pumped with vodka before the first shooting so that it would not be scary. But for the second time, Antonina did not need to drink alcohol before the execution of any innocent Soviet people.
To understand the scale of the terror unleashed by the traitors led by Kaminsky on the territory of the Lokot Republic, it’s enough to indicate that the “suicide bombers” were sent to Antonina by groups of 27 people almost every day. Sometimes Antonina, who was called the “Tonka-machine gunner” in the Lokot auxiliary police, had to fulfill her bloody duty three times a day.
Among those who were shot were partisans who fell into the hands of the Germans, members of their families, as well as just civilians, who were executed for the smallest offenses or for intimidation. Makarova did not disdain that after the execution she removed from the corpses her favorite items of clothing. In total, Tonka the machine gunner shot about 1500 people.