The colorful life of Polish gangsters often ended at the least expected moment. And not in a natural way. The most famous cases of mafia executions are still surrounded by many secrets, and the prosecutions investigations have long stalled. Is there a chance that we will know the whole truth one day
Deliberately infecting people with malaria. Massive infection with syphilis. Tests that caused bones and blood vessels to burst in the eyes. Sounds like experiments of exceptional madmen? This is what the US militarys research programs looked like in the 20th century. The United States conducted
The tragedy of Volhynia is simply unimaginable. Poles died under the blows of their torturers regardless of their age - old people, adults and even babies. Sometimes the only family members who survived were children. What was the fate of Polish orphans saved from the Volhynia massacre in 1943?
This time it wasnt just about running away. We decided to destroy the camp, says one of the survivors. Prisoners who witnessed the deaths of up to a million Jews wanted freedom, but also revenge. This is what they got. But at what price? It is impossible to decide exactly at what point the idea
Red-hot iron throne. Executioners pincers tearing the victims body. And the subordinates of the tortured, forced to ... bite his body, devour bits of human flesh and drink the blood of the battered. Jan Zápolya in 1514 was not a king, but he was one of the most powerful Hungarian magnates. He ha
Reigning has never been a safe activity. Some rulers have forgotten, however, that there are also down-to-earth dangers awaiting them. Which for example? And who of them died in the strangest way? Most of the crowned heads in history were aware that their every step was watched carefully by mass
They emerged from the sea like demons, destroyed, robbed and murdered, then disappeared with the spoil, leaving ashes behind them. From the fury of the Northmen save us, Lord, she pleaded fearfully. But God did not always listen to prayers ... It has been almost 350 years since we and our ancest
When in 1941 the Germans failed to take Leningrad by storm, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht decided to force the city to capitulate by starving it. The Germans did not expect the Leningrades to survive the siege after all. Only at what cost? Anthropophagy, or cannibalism, is one of the greatest t
All of England and France lived in fear of their brutality. Viking torture has become an infamous symbol of pagan bestiality. Bloody eagle, gutting enemies ... But whats the truth about Viking torture? And which of them were the worst? One thing is certain:the black legend preceded the warriors
A boy from a good family. A trusting PE player. A rich and respected host. At first glance, there was nothing to connect them with the hideous murders that shocked the public opinion of the Peoples Republic of Poland. And yet it was they who turned out to be real beasts in human skin, capable of uni
A request for forgiveness, or maybe a handful of insults against the judge? Not every convict was capable of lofty, commemorative round sentences. Here are some examples of the really STUNNING last words spoken just before the execution. Serial killer David Mason was very cool when the time came
Poisoning by plant alkaloids, quartering and boiling the bodies of victims, walling up the bodies under the floor - these are just some of the cases recorded in 19th century British criminal records. Cruel murders were carried out in the light of gas lamps, the perpetrators of which were not always
Crushed faces and massacred legs. Body remains scattered around the area. Hours of agony in the mine shaft. Sounds like an arsenal of terrifying practices straight from thriller series? Meanwhile, this is what the death of many representatives of the shaking dynasty of the Russian Empire looked like
Our ancestors called it St. Anthonys fires. Tens of thousands of people died of it in unimaginable torments. It took centuries to find the causes of this disease - even though the enemy was at hand every day. The first mentions of an atypical disease come from France. In 590, behaviors attribute
Poison sprinkled with wine? Revenge of a wife or a hateful soldier? Or maybe rather ... an ordinary disease caused by a fly bite? What really caused the death of one of the greatest leaders in history? What were Alexander the greats last moments in Babylon? It was in June 323 BCE in this city
Mithridates VI Eupator reigned from 120-63 BCE He knew more than twenty languages, which he learned, however, not to understand other peoples, but to read the original treatises on poisons and antidotes. The mysterious life of King Pontus is not only fascinating but also terrifying. Named half-H
In a time without professional investigative offices and DNA testing, finding the culprits was remarkably easy. When the body, especially the childs body, was found, the perpetrator was obvious:a Jew. It was enough to add an equally obvious ritual motive and the case was closed. Are you sure? On
Brutal physical and mental torture. Heavy beatings, mutilation of bodies, blackmail. Concealed and overt killings. The officers of the communist secret police did not stop at anything. After all, state justice has always been on their side ... On May 8, 1947, in a boiler set up by the Security O
He passed a death sentence on a Hollywood star, encouraged scientists to grow plants in the desert, and finally locked all his engineers in labor camps. And these are by no means the DEADEST idea of Joseph Stalin. In the late 1920s, Stalin planned to accelerate the revolution. The first five-y
They chew on raw horse meat and the leather of their own shoes. Often, they ate each other out of hunger. If they were captured by Cossacks or local peasants, they would end their lives impaled, boiled in boiling water, dismembered or buried alive in the forest. Such was the fate of Napoleons troops
Everyone has heard about pirates - dangerous bandits attacking ships with pure gold and precious objects in their holds. Boardings, pirate eye-patches, parrots etc. And all this in the paradise scenery of the Caribbean Islands. However, we do not have to go that far, because at the turn of the 14th
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Acute pornography in Egyptian mythology. An outstanding painter exposed as a disgusting pedophile. And the dark secrets of British obstetricians. We present ten stories so drastic, vulgar, or so erotic that we decided to mark them as materials [18+] before publication. As always, all TOP10 items
In the middle of the night it became as bright as day, and the ground shook from the firing of eight thousand guns. Thus, on April 16, 1945, Marshal Georgy Zhukov announced that he was commencing the Berlin Operation - the final act of the Third Reich. The Germans were unable to stop the Red Army ad
Genocide is the word used to refer to actions taken by certain groups with the aim of exterminating other groups because of their option religious , ideological , or for questions related to ethnicity , race and nationality . This term was coined by a Jewish lawyer in the 1940s, due to events relate