Evgeniy Viskov was tortured for several hours, beaten frantically, mercilessly; doctors would later say: “beaten to death.” Each of the 14 scum came up with an execution, then they argued noisily, agreed and continued. When they were exhausted, they ran over the unfortunate man with a car. Once, then in an arc... But he still did not die. At the end, someone suggested impaling the mutilated guy. And so they did. An hour later (it was at night) a belated traveler tripped over the poor fellow. He called an ambulance.

The local police, apparently, did not believe the stories of the victim and numerous witnesses, because a criminal case was opened there only on the fact of an accident.

"WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS TO MY SON?"

The village of Osipovka is nestled on the very edge of the Odessa region. It’s closer to the border with Moldova than to the regional center of Frunzovka. It seems that the local roads were forgotten immediately after the Great Patriotic War died down. The local people are mostly unfriendly and gloomy. There is mortal melancholy and hopelessness in the eyes. Somewhere here, at the intersection of two nameless streets, there is a faded bar with the simple name "Anna". Near it, on a dead July night, we crossed paths life paths 28-year-old Evgeniy and a gang of 14 over-aged thugs.

They seemed to be drunk, they started clinging to me, laughing,” recalls Evgeniy. - I told them something, non-aggressive, because I was scared. In response - a blow, then another. I fell.

His mother has been on duty near him for days in a row. The woman still cannot understand what the bastards did to her son. Where does such atrocity come from? And most importantly - for what?

Zhenya has never hurt a fly in his life,” laments Natalya Ivanovna. - How could you mock a person like that, my blood? All his ribs are broken, his head, legs, spine, and I don’t know how to say this...

Choking with sobs, the woman was unable to say that her son, to use medical terminology, “had his perineum torn with a hard, blunt object.”

THE EXECUTION WAS SEEN BY THE WHOLE VILLAGE

In Osipovka they are happy: now we have our own Oksana Makar.

Are we worse, or what? - says local resident Olga, hugging her two babies. - Now let's become famous. Otherwise, I suppose no one knew that such a village existed.

It’s scary to imagine, but many heard the unfortunate man’s pleas for mercy and the victorious cries and hoots of his tormentors that night. They woke up some, while others were still awake and, creeping up to their fence, quietly watched what was happening. And not a single person ran out to help, or even called the police.

I just then left the house,” says eyewitness Yulia Voronchuk. “Then the swearing stopped for a minute, the headlights came on. In their light, I saw the silhouette of a man sitting on the road. The engine started and the car drove towards him. He covered his face with his hands and there was a blow. The car ran into him, began to skid, and then stalled. People jumped out of the car and started swearing again. They shouted: “Because of you, you goat, they also broke the car!” They fiddled with the car for a long time, pushing it. Then they pulled the guy out from under her and beat him.

A CAR AT THE PENALTY AREA - WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED?

The local police responded to the terrible emergency sluggishly and reluctantly. As soon as the guy came to his senses, he was interrogated. Then they walked around the farmsteads closest to the scene, talked with possible witnesses, and established the picture. And they refused to initiate a case. They didn’t see the crime. How? Why? Now they don't explain it anymore.

Senior colleagues from the region are involved in the investigation; we will not give any comments without their “good”,” they say in the Frunzovsky regional department.

When the public learned about this turn of events, a scandal erupted. Outraged people demanded that the police answer why they were allowing the bandits to commit outrages. Along with the first indignant cries, a belated criminal case appeared. True, for some reason it was due to an accident.

The owner of the car that hit the victim has been identified, the Frunzovsky district department justified. - Vehicle at the penalty area, a case has been opened...

The news of this angered the local residents even more. It is unknown how it would have ended if the Odessa Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had not intervened in the matter.

“We started our own investigation,” says the head of the department, Vladimir Shablienko. “We’ll find out why no one has been detained yet and take appropriate measures.”

FUN OR REVENGE?

In Osipovka they say: the gang has rampaged here before, and Evgeniy is not their first victim.

“These are not ours, not locals,” complains village resident Olga Orlik. - They come here from Frunzovka and neighboring Rosiyanovka. About two weeks before the attack on Zhenya, they beat up a guy here. But not so cruel - everything happened when it was still light, maybe that saved him. Complaining to the police is useless; they say they have good connections there.

Other residents of Osipovka also speak about connections between rowdy police officers. They say that a certain Ivan B., one of that company, has a brother who is a local police officer in the Primorsky district of Odessa, and the other, minor Andrei P., has a father who works in the police. They, they say, are shielding their relatives, and at the same time everyone else.

The Internet accounts of the participants in the night massacre have already been deleted. But people’s opinions unexpectedly differed about the reasons for the attack. Relatives and friends of the victim are sure: this is a raid out of nothing to do, typical for these places.

They think that everything is allowed to them,” Zhenya’s brother Oleg is indignant. “So they roam around villages at night, catching people and mocking them. Just for fun.

However, our source in law enforcement agencies thinks otherwise. In his opinion, what happened is more reminiscent of an act of intimidation or retribution on the part of an organized criminal community.

Let’s remember that it happened in a border village,” he explains. “In such places, smuggling and the shadow business associated with it are almost the only source of income for local youth. Any violent manipulation of, excuse me, the bottom is a generally accepted punishment in the criminal world. I would work on this version as well. You might be able to dig up something interesting.

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A world where everything is the other way around

To better understand how this could happen, you need to try to imagine a place where everything is the other way around. Where the entire school works as a laborer on the director's plantations, and the teachers give "automatic" grades for this. Where policemen with guns in their hands extort vodka in bars, and then, in a drunken stupor, shoot themselves in the head. Where small children climb into a noose out of hopelessness, but adults don’t care about this. Yes, yes, this is all about Osipovka and other downtrodden villages. To all of the above should be added poverty (a policeman with a salary of 1,600 hryvnia is considered a very wealthy person), widespread illiteracy, and the lack of universal human values: morality, compassion, mutual assistance. The resulting picture will resemble the one that reigns in the rural outback.

Impalement is one of the most cruel types of execution that humanity has come up with. This savage massacre has been known since ancient times, and was practiced almost everywhere in Asia and in some European countries until modern times. Depending on the era and region, there were features of this procedure.

Option one.

It was practiced in Assyria and other states ancient East. A person was impaled on a sharpened stake through his stomach or chest, and he died from loss of blood even before the tip of the stake reached through his chest to his armpit. Such a slow execution was applied to residents of rebellious cities. Assyrian and Egyptian bas-reliefs abound with images of people impaled.

Option two.

It was used in Byzantium, in European countries, for example, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, where they dealt with the rebel Cossacks in this way, as well as in Russia, where rebels were also traditionally subjected to this punishment. The cruel execution took place like this: the convict was placed face down on the ground. The executioner's henchmen held him tightly by the arms and legs, and the executioner drove a sharpened stake into the unfortunate man's anus. Sometimes, for this purpose, incisions had to be made on the body of the convict. Having driven the stake 40-50 centimeters, it was lifted, together with the person impaled on it, and placed vertically. Further, the participation of the executioner was no longer required. Under its own weight, the body of the condemned man sank lower and lower, and the stake went deeper and deeper inside, tearing the organs of the executed man. The unfortunate man died from blood loss, peritonitis and painful shock. Sometimes the suffering lasted more than a day. If they wanted to prolong the torment, then a special crossbar was made on the stake, which did not allow the tip to reach the heart and thereby end the suffering of the condemned person. In Russia, the skill of an executioner was considered if the tip of the stake came out through the throat.

Option three.

It is typical for Eastern countries. Everything happens exactly the same as in the second case, with the only difference that the instrument of execution is not a sharpened stake, but, on the contrary, a stake with a thin rounded top. This top of the stake, as well as the anus, was lubricated with oil. In this case, the stake penetrated deeply into the body, not tearing, but pushing apart the internal organs. The suffering of the convicted person with this method of execution lasts much longer, since there is no excessive bleeding. According to the descriptions of Europeans who saw such executions in Eastern countries, sometimes a person showed signs of life on the fourth or fifth day of execution.

Regional features.

However, human sophistication was not limited to these three types of execution. In some countries and regions, impalement had local variations. For example, the Zulus in South Africa executed warriors who showed themselves to be cowards and witches in this way: the offender was put on all fours and a stick or even several were driven into his anus. After this, the convict was thrown into the savannah to die from loss of blood. In Sweden in the 17th century, rebels from the Danish provinces were also impaled, but they stuck it not into the anus, but between the spine and the skin, making cuts on the body. The convicts slowly slid lower and lower, bleeding, and their torment could last for several days. The famous Romanian ruler Vlad Tepes, who became the prototype of Dracula, often used this execution and treated it very creatively. He impaled women, piercing not the anus, but the vagina. In this case, the tip of the stake pierced the uterus, and the victim died from bleeding quite quickly, within a few hours. In China, impalement was carried out in this way: a hollow bamboo trunk was inserted into the convict’s anus, and then a hot rod was inserted.

Executions have been carried out in Rus' for a long time, in a sophisticated and painful manner. Historians to this day have not come to a consensus about the reasons for the emergence of the death penalty.

Some are inclined towards the version of the continuation of the custom of blood feud, others prefer the Byzantine influence. How did they deal with those who broke the law in Rus'?

Drowning

This type of execution was very common in Kievan Rus. It was usually used in cases where it was necessary to deal with a large number of criminals. But there were also isolated cases. For example, Kyiv prince Rostislav once became angry with Gregory the Wonderworker. He ordered to tie the hands of the disobedient man, throw a rope noose around his neck, at the other end of which they fastened a heavy stone, and throw him into the water. Executed by drowning Ancient Rus' and apostates, that is, Christians. They were sewn into a bag and thrown into the water. Typically, such executions took place after battles, during which many prisoners appeared. Execution by drowning, in contrast to execution by burning, was considered the most shameful for Christians. It is interesting that centuries later the Bolsheviks, during Civil War They used drowning as reprisal against the families of the “bourgeois”, while the condemned were tied with their hands and thrown into the water.

Burning

Since the 13th century, this type of execution was usually applied to those who violated church laws - for blasphemy against God, for unpalatable sermons, for witchcraft. She was especially loved by Ivan the Terrible, who, by the way, was very inventive in his methods of execution. For example, he came up with the idea of ​​sewing up guilty people in bearskins and giving them to be torn to pieces by dogs or skinning a living person. In the era of Peter, execution by burning was used against counterfeiters. By the way, they were punished in another way - molten lead or tin was poured into their mouths.

Burying

Burying alive in the ground was usually used for husband-killers. Most often, a woman was buried up to her throat, less often - only up to her chest. Such a scene is excellently described by Tolstoy in his novel Peter the Great. Usually the place for execution was a crowded place - the central square or city market. A sentry was posted next to the still-living executed criminal, who stopped any attempts to show compassion or give the woman water or some bread. However, it was not forbidden to express one’s contempt or hatred for the criminal - spitting on the head or even kicking it. Those who wished could also give alms for a coffin and church candles. Typically, painful death occurred within 3–4 days, but history records a case when a certain Euphrosyne, buried on August 21, died only on September 22.

Quartering

During quartering, the condemned were cut off their legs, then their arms, and only then their heads. This is how, for example, Stepan Razin was executed. It was planned to take the life of Emelyan Pugachev in the same way, but they first cut off his head and then deprived him of his limbs. From the examples given, it is easy to guess that this type of execution was used for insulting the king, for an attempt on his life, for treason and imposture. It is worth noting that, unlike the Central European, for example the Parisian, crowd, which perceived the execution as a spectacle and dismantled the gallows for souvenirs, the Russian people treated the condemned with compassion and mercy. So, during the execution of Razin, there was deathly silence in the square, broken only by rare female sobs. At the end of the procedure, people usually left in silence.

Boiling

Boiling in oil, water or wine was especially popular in Rus' during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. The condemned person was placed in a cauldron filled with liquid. The hands were threaded into special rings built into the cauldron. Then the cauldron was put on the fire and slowly began to heat up. As a result, the person was boiled alive. This kind of execution was used in Rus' for state traitors. However, this type looks humane in comparison with the execution called “Walking in a circle” - one of the most brutal methods used in Rus'. The condemned man's stomach was ripped open in the area of ​​the intestines, but so that he did not die too quickly from blood loss. Then they removed the intestine, nailed one end to a tree, and forced the executed person to walk in a circle around the tree.

Wheeling

Wheel riding became widespread in the era of Peter. The condemned person was tied to a log St. Andrew's cross fixed to the scaffold. Notches were made on the arms of the cross. The criminal was stretched out on the cross face up in such a way that each of his limbs lay on the rays, and the bends of the limbs were on the notches. The executioner used a quadrangular iron crowbar to strike one blow after another, gradually breaking the bones in the bends of the arms and legs. The work of crying was completed with two or three precise blows to the stomach, with the help of which the spine was broken. The body of the broken criminal was connected so that the heels met the back of the head, placed on a horizontal wheel and left to die in this position. The last time such an execution was applied in Rus' was to participants in the Pugachev rebellion.

Impalement

Like quartering, impalement was usually used against rebels or traitors to thieves. This is how Zarutsky, an accomplice of Marina Mnishek, was executed in 1614. During the execution, the executioner drove a stake into the person's body with a hammer, then the stake was placed vertically. The executed person gradually began to slide down under the weight of his own body. After a few hours, the stake came out through his chest or neck. Sometimes a crossbar was made on the stake, which stopped the movement of the body, preventing the stake from reaching the heart. This method significantly extended the time of painful death. Until the 18th century, impalement was a very common type of execution among the Zaporozhye Cossacks. Smaller stakes were used to punish rapists - they had a stake driven into their hearts, and also against mothers who killed children.

Medieval executions and massacres of prisoners are considered one of the most brutal.

Impalement deserves special attention. This type of medieval execution became especially popular in Byzantium and the Middle East. The famous prince of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler, very often used this method of execution to intimidate his enemies.

Impaling: How did it happen?

Historians know at least two varieties of this execution. In the first case, the condemned person was pierced through the chest with a sharpened stake. Thus, the victim died almost immediately from multiple tissue ruptures and blood loss. In the second case, the executioners were more inventive and bloodthirsty. A wooden and pointed stake was driven into the victim through the anus, after the tip was greased with fat. The stake was driven inside with a hammer, causing the victim suffering from skin tears and bleeding. Sometimes the guilty victim was hung by a rope and then impaled. Under the pressure of its own weight, the tip of the stake came out either through the mouth or through the armpit and rib.

Features and reasons for impalement

It is interesting to note that main feature This execution was due to the long life expectancy of the victims after impalement.

The unfortunate victims could long time remain conscious and await your inevitable death. Medieval executioners dealt with prisoners so skillfully and skillfully that they managed not to damage a single vital organ. In this way, a crossbar was driven into the stake, which stopped the movement of the body at the moment when the stake approached the heart. This stopped death and delayed it for as long as possible.

The main advantages of execution by impalement were:

• Prolonged torment;
• An excellent method of intimidating the enemy;
• Availability of material for stakes.

In Rus', impalement was used for criminals who dared to go against the tsar, rebelled, or engaged in theft. Unfaithful wives were impaled on a rounded stake, after driving it into the vagina. Thus, women died within a few hours and sometimes minutes, bleeding due to rupture of the uterus and female internal organs. Many husbands remained to watch the suffering of their wives until the end, and some left the body on a wooden frame until it decomposed.

The type of execution through impalement was very often used by the Zaporozhye Cossacks. But the Cossacks themselves were subjected to the same torture by the Polish nobles.

The Assyrian authorities impaled rebels. This was done publicly, and the image of this torture was left on bas-reliefs and frescoes, as a clear example for disobedient citizens.

South Africans used similar punishment for warriors who failed to follow orders, cowards, and witches who posed a threat to the government or tribe. In this case, the person was put on all fours and, in turn, several sharpened stakes half a meter long and 5-10 centimeters wide were driven into the anus.

Executions have been carried out in Rus' for a long time, in a sophisticated and painful manner. Historians to this day have not come to a consensus about the reasons for the emergence of the death penalty.

Some are inclined towards the version of the continuation of the custom of blood feud, others prefer the Byzantine influence. How did they deal with those who broke the law in Rus'?

Drowning

This type of execution was very common in Kievan Rus. It was usually used in cases where it was necessary to deal with a large number of criminals. But there were also isolated cases. So, for example, the Kiev prince Rostislav once became angry with Gregory the Wonderworker. He ordered to tie the hands of the disobedient man, throw a rope noose around his neck, at the other end of which they fastened a heavy stone, and throw him into the water. In Ancient Rus', apostates, that is, Christians, were also executed by drowning. They were sewn into a bag and thrown into the water. Typically, such executions took place after battles, during which many prisoners appeared. Execution by drowning, in contrast to execution by burning, was considered the most shameful for Christians. It is interesting that centuries later, during the Civil War, the Bolsheviks used drowning as reprisal against the families of the “bourgeois”, while the condemned were tied with their hands and thrown into the water.

Burning

Since the 13th century, this type of execution was usually applied to those who violated church laws - for blasphemy against God, for unpalatable sermons, for witchcraft. She was especially loved by Ivan the Terrible, who, by the way, was very inventive in his methods of execution. For example, he came up with the idea of ​​sewing up guilty people in bearskins and giving them to be torn to pieces by dogs or skinning a living person. In the era of Peter, execution by burning was used against counterfeiters. By the way, they were punished in another way - molten lead or tin was poured into their mouths.

Burying

Burying alive in the ground was usually used for husband-killers. Most often, a woman was buried up to her throat, less often - only up to her chest. Such a scene is excellently described by Tolstoy in his novel Peter the Great. Usually the place for execution was a crowded place - the central square or city market. A sentry was posted next to the still-living executed criminal, who stopped any attempts to show compassion or give the woman water or some bread. However, it was not forbidden to express one’s contempt or hatred for the criminal - spitting on the head or even kicking it. Those who wished could also give alms for a coffin and church candles. Typically, painful death occurred within 3–4 days, but history records a case when a certain Euphrosyne, buried on August 21, died only on September 22.

Quartering

During quartering, the condemned were cut off their legs, then their arms, and only then their heads. This is how, for example, Stepan Razin was executed. It was planned to take the life of Emelyan Pugachev in the same way, but they first cut off his head and then deprived him of his limbs. From the examples given, it is easy to guess that this type of execution was used for insulting the king, for an attempt on his life, for treason and imposture. It is worth noting that, unlike the Central European, for example the Parisian, crowd, which perceived the execution as a spectacle and dismantled the gallows for souvenirs, the Russian people treated the condemned with compassion and mercy. So, during the execution of Razin, there was deathly silence in the square, broken only by rare female sobs. At the end of the procedure, people usually left in silence.

Boiling

Boiling in oil, water or wine was especially popular in Rus' during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. The condemned person was placed in a cauldron filled with liquid. The hands were threaded into special rings built into the cauldron. Then the cauldron was put on the fire and slowly began to heat up. As a result, the person was boiled alive. This kind of execution was used in Rus' for state traitors. However, this type looks humane in comparison with the execution called “Walking in a circle” - one of the most brutal methods used in Rus'. The condemned man's stomach was ripped open in the area of ​​the intestines, but so that he did not die too quickly from blood loss. Then they removed the intestine, nailed one end to a tree, and forced the executed person to walk in a circle around the tree.

Wheeling

Wheel riding became widespread in the era of Peter. The condemned person was tied to a log St. Andrew's cross fixed to the scaffold. Notches were made on the arms of the cross. The criminal was stretched out on the cross face up in such a way that each of his limbs lay on the rays, and the bends of the limbs were on the notches. The executioner used a quadrangular iron crowbar to strike one blow after another, gradually breaking the bones in the bends of the arms and legs. The work of crying was completed with two or three precise blows to the stomach, with the help of which the spine was broken. The body of the broken criminal was connected so that the heels met the back of the head, placed on a horizontal wheel and left to die in this position. The last time such an execution was applied in Rus' was to participants in the Pugachev rebellion.

Impalement

Like quartering, impalement was usually used against rebels or traitors to thieves. This is how Zarutsky, an accomplice of Marina Mnishek, was executed in 1614. During the execution, the executioner drove a stake into the person's body with a hammer, then the stake was placed vertically. The executed person gradually began to slide down under the weight of his own body. After a few hours, the stake came out through his chest or neck. Sometimes a crossbar was made on the stake, which stopped the movement of the body, preventing the stake from reaching the heart. This method significantly extended the time of painful death. Until the 18th century, impalement was a very common type of execution among the Zaporozhye Cossacks. Smaller stakes were used to punish rapists - they had a stake driven into their hearts, and also against mothers who killed children.