🟠During WWII, Chief Executioner of the NKVD Vasily Blokhin is estimated to have personally shot and murdered over 7,000 Poles during the Katyn Massacre; this “remains the deadliest record by a single individual in history.”
He had an ambitious goal of 300 executions per night, each victim shot at the base of the skull, and the body dragged away by guards.
He “worked without pause for nearly a month. Executing an average of one man every three minutes.”
“When the operation ended, around 22,000 Polish prisoners had been killed.”